[1] He attended St Peter's School, Southbourne (1961-1969), where he was active in their fencing club.
in Pure and Applied Plant Taxonomy at Reading University (1973), with a project on "Lotus section Pedrosia in the Canary Islands".
[4] In 1976 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Birmingham University for the thesis "The Systematics of the Chenopodiaceae" using Numerical taxonomy.
He was awarded a Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) from Thames Valley College in 1990 and worked in Information technology at KPOS Computer Systems[10][11] and Swan Retail.
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