Tim Westoll

Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 Westoll joined the Border Regiment and was posted to the coast of Kent.

He was Mentioned in Despatches on 4 April 1946 and retired the service at the end of the war with the rank of acting major.

[1][5] In 1946, Westoll married Sylvia Jane, the youngest daughter of Sir Fairfax Luxmoore (1876–1944), a Lord Justice of Appeal, and they had four children.

[3] After the war, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, from where he was called to the Bar, and worked in the family shipping business, James Westoll, Ltd., of John Street, Sunderland, until it was sold in the 1950s.

Westoll took a legal battle all the way to the House of Lords, winning it in an early victory for the environmental lobby.