This website presents a brief outline of my professional services in genealogy, intestacy, historical research, Latin translation, and philately, also the books I've written, how to order them and to get in touch for talks, lectures and for similar other enquiries.

I was born, and still live in, the seaside town of Whitstable on the north Kent coast, just outside Canterbury. In between much travelling, including three round-the-world trips and visiting over fifty countries, a lifetime’s familiarity with one large and important old English county and its 400 ancient parishes has afforded me deep insights into the reading and interpretation of Kentish and other historical records.

My career has taken me from professional philately to over three decades of genealogical and historical research and writing, by way of the study of the classics and university lecturing, three books on Kentish records, and a biography of Bryan Faussett, the Kentish genealogist, antiquary and archaeologist.

I continue to lecture widely on genealogy and allied subjects, and have taught classical and mediaeval Latin and palaeography at the City Literary Institute, and at both University College, London, and the School of History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. I have been a member of the Kent Family History Society almost from its inception in the 1970s. In 2009, after nearly forty years’ membership, I was awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Society of Genealogists.

My ongoing scholarly interests include the Greek and Latin classics; ancient history; the history of art; palaeography and the transmission of ancient texts; early printed books; ecclesiology and ecclesiastical architecture; Anglo-Saxon and mediaeval England; genealogy and heraldry; linguistics and philology. For leisure interests I am keen on bridge and chess, philately, walking and climbing, and travelling in remote places. 

You can also find me on LinkedIn where there is also a CV (downloadable pdf) and professional profile.

I am a Lay Preacher at St Peter's Church in Whitstable.  A selection of my sermons are available to read and download via this link, my Wordpress site.

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Do check my Events Diary and the launch of my new book on Bryan Faussett, Antiquary Extraordinary, follow my news and updates here, and subject listing for talks here.