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Born in Kent and went to school in London, I joined the Royal Air Force in 1957 and trained as a Radar Fitter. After leaving the RAF in 1969 I moved to Reading where I worked as a computer field engineer for ICL before taking early retirement in September 1999.
I am married and have 3 grown-up married children and 6 grandchildren aged 4 - 18 years old.
My interests are mainly outdoor sports, having played every ball game (even Netball once) except Hockey and Lacrosse. Now a keen golfer, skier and runner, I have completed several half marathons and plan to run the Vancouver half marathon in 2007. I like classical, jazz and ethnic music, crosswords, reading, Bollywood movies and travel.
When Jim Day retired as a councillor in 2001, I was elected as the councillor for Tilehurst Ward in his place joining my fellow councillors Peter Weston and Jude Fry. I am on various committees including Access Forum, Town Twinning, Healthier Reading and Sports Development as well as being a member of the Culture and Sport Scrutiny Panel and Reading Compact Group.
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Dr Barry Collett was born in Australia and brought up in a remote bush area, where he was once a good shot with a Lee Enfield .303. As a mature student, at the age of fifty-one, he graduated Doctor of Philosophy in Oxford, with a thesis in Italian intellectual history, supervised by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre, Regius Professor of History.
He taught at University of Melbourne from 1992-2004, and now, in retirement is Research Scholar in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, where he is currently writing a biography of Richard Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi College in 1517. He has published several books and numerous articles in international academic journals and encyclopaedias, writes book reviews and has given many radio broadcasts and interviews on historical topics. In 2001, he brokered large funding from the Altajir Trust for a lectureship in Middle Eastern History at the University of Melbourne.
He is founder and director of Executive Renaissance, conducting historical lectures ands seminars to business and professional people in Australia. He is now learning to fly light aircraft, and hopes his wife and many children and grandchildren want to fly with him.
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Born in Nepal in 1954 and a Gurkha of many years standing serving in the UK, Australia, Malaysia, Gulf, Brunei and Hong Kong Chandra was honourably discharged in 1997 from the 2nd Gurkha Rifles.
Today Chandra's role is as liason and welfare support for the ex- Gurkhas returning to settle in the UK from Nepal.
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