I am a retired lecturer and author of 20 books, all on Amazon, notably The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. I live in Cambridge with my wife Jane, a midwife at the Rosie Maternity Hospital. My daughter Faye is a nurse in the A&E department of Addenbrookes Hospital. My son Simon works for Cambridge University Library. I am a graduate of Cambridge University (Pembroke College, 1961-1964) and have a PhD degree.

My Fellowship involved spending two months in the USA in 1974, studying the ways in which the nutritional values of foods could be conveyed to consumers. I published a report on the subject the same year and I assume a copy is still held by the Trust.

I was working in the food industry at the time. More recently, food labelling has adopted a 'traffic light' system to indicate dangers and benefits of packaged foods. These are better than the methods I reported on in 1974.