[2] His family lived in Solihull for a while[3] before moving to Hull in 1970,[4] where he grew up in an affluent suburb.
Their parents were active in politics locally;[4] Peter Crampton was a teacher and lecturer in geography[6] and later a United Kingdom member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999,[7][8] representing the Humberside constituency for the Labour Party.
[14] He writes Beta Male, a regular weekly column in The Times Saturday magazine.
[10] He subsequently described his experiences of speaking at Caistor Grammar School in Lincolnshire, Highbury Grove School in North London, a training day in Bath, a Rotary Club, a women's group, a prison, a church sermon, as a best man at a wedding and delivering a eulogy at a family funeral.
[15] His past interviewees include Tony Blair,[16] David Cameron,[17] Paul McCartney,[18] Kate Winslet,[19] Kelly Brook,[20] Alex Ferguson,[21] David Walliams,[22] Liam Gallagher,[23] Sienna Miller,[24] and John Terry.
[25] In 1999 he signed a deal with a publisher to write a book, tracking down his old O-Level classmates.
[26] The author and journalist Bryan Appleyard described his Beta Male column as "light in tone, insightful but unpretentious, and above all, just the right length.
He met his future wife Nicola Almond when at school aged 12 in 1977, but only started going out with her thirteen years later.