Robert "Bucket" Hingley

His family relocated regularly due to his father's career in the British Army and as such Hingley spent much of his early life abroad living in Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Singapore and France.

Charlie Huxtable's brother Richard was technical advisor to the clinker-built replicas of the Golden Hind (Sir Francis Drake) and the Mayflower.

Due to his father's military commitments Hingley attended Drake's Mead boarding school and Tavistock Comprehensive in the United Kingdom before entering the University of York in 1974.

He graduated with an honours degree in Linguistics from the universities of York and Strasbourg (France) in 1978 speaking six languages Hingley emigrated to the United States in the late 1970s to manage the Forbidden Planet comic shop in New York City before forming The Toasters in 1981.

The business predominantly deals with American bands in Europe but also handles clients such as the John Lennon Foundation.