... of Music. He was bom in Edinburgh but brought up in Nottingham, where he developed a love of cricket while a pupil at Nottingham High School, becoming cricket captain. But he had an early ambition to become a singer and studied at the Royal Academy of ...

... Wellington, where he shone at languages and translated Shakespeare into Latin and Greek, in between showing some prowess as a cricketer. However, he determined that the theatre should be his eventual career and immediately joined the Oxford University Dramatic ...

... anything from how to grow the best tomatoes to recycling waste. His love of sport, espe cially cricket, was shared by his son who played first class cricket. He enjoyed competi tive sports and played soccer, rugby union and table tennis, playing more than ...