Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Signals Corps, British Army, Ret.; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; bachelor of science in telecommunications engineering from the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, 1972; was selected as backup for STS-61H; hobbies: orienteering, running; since he retired from active duty he worked with British Aerospace, then Matra Marconi Space UK Ltd., Bristol, and Paradigum Secure Communications in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.