I was born on the 9th November 1937 in Browns Hall, St Catherine Jamaica.

Attended the local Infant and Elementary Schools prior to embarking on a 3 year agricultural course at Dinthill, Linstead St Catherine.

I then worked in Vere Clarendon for 3 years before emigrating to the U.K.

My formative years at Browns Hall, as mentioned in my autobiography, will always be remembered.  I am convinced that my subsequent achievement in life is largely due to my early years experiences at Browns Hall.

Discipline was instilled in us, respect and good manners was the norm.  We were encouraged to be ambitious, to aim high, and that a good education should be our priority.

The 3 years at Dinthill has taught me, amongst other things how to integrate and correlate with my peers, and to be industrious.

My first job in Vere Clarendon, gave me insight into the wider world community.  It was challenging but never the less gratifying, meeting and working with people from various social background.

Emigrating to England was not a difficult option because my parents, brothers and fiancée was already there.  I lived and worked in Birmingham initially prior to settling down in Gloucester for the past 45 years.

My work experiences in the U.K. ranges from being a bus conductor, a paint sprayer, a bakery assistant to my final job as an Engineer, which I did for 33 years.

I was married to Millicent Westcarr (nee Campbell) for 35 years.  Millicent died in 1997.  I have 5 sons, 1 stepson, 16 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

My hobbies included cricket (no longer a player), playing dominoes, walking and cycling and connecting with people.

My involvement in Race Relations, community and educational matters began innocently.  In the early 70s I became a member of the Parent Teacher Association at the school in which one of my boys were a student.  The discrimination and prejudices within some local education departments was blatantly obvious, especially regarding selection policies of Junior school children to Secondary and Grammar Schools.

The maladies of discrimination then permeates throughout every aspects of British society was unacceptable, I therefore inadvertently started to canvass and to campaign to redress the imbalance by either starting up a new organisation or joining existing ones having similar aims and objectives.