Retired after 35 yrs as RAF officer/Chartered Engineer with long involvement in engineering professional development organisations, then leading roles in timber trade institutes, aerospace industry trade association and 7 yrs as Clerk of Engineers’ Company (with office in WCH). Retains voluntary roles primarily in heritage/culture charitable sector with particular interests in ‘the long eighteenth century’ and heraldry. Also Liveryman of Arts Scholars' and Educators' Companies.