Husband of Kathleen Patricia (nee Boscawan) (died 1992) for 60 years

Immigrated from Scotland with his parents at the age of 10 (1921)

King's Preparatory School, 1922-1923

His Auckland University studies, prior to WW2; were interrupted by the Great Depression

Served as a Presbyterian missionary during the Depression

Owned and operated the Taranaki franchise for Frigidaire prior to WW2. Built New Zealand's first air conditioning plant in Hawera cheese factory in 1937

Past President, New Zealand Institute of Measurement and Control (Fellow and Life Member)

Contributor to New Zealand Engineering News into his eighties.

Author of Cassino to Trieste : A Soldier's Story:

Lived from 1983 on Waiheke Island where he busked with his banjo-ukelele to raise fund for the Waiheke Kindergarten

Completed a B.A. in Philosophy at Victoria University in 1997, aged 84

FIMC; FIMH; FACIS

Said to be a man who approached life with the question "why not?" rather than "why?" AWMM