A good life

As a young man, his sporting achievements included being the captain of the town’s cricket team, representing the town and his Navy team at football along with being the coach of Derby School’s rowing team.

On leaving school at 15, Dad set about as an apprentice electrician, but after 3 years, his mother had had enough of him around her feet and told him to ‘go and join the army’ and so in 1959 he commenced his career in the Royal Navy.

Having served 9 years of which 3 had been on submarines, he left Portsmouth and headed north with a young family to commence research and development with Rolls Royce in Derby. He later re-trained as a Physics and Maths teacher and became a successful teacher at Derby School and later a Physics lecturer at the local college.

Even in retirement, Brian was always proud of his achievements and the accuracy to which he had to work in his formative years…'these hands are accurate to within ten one thousands of an inch’ he would proudly recount.