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Born 1917; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Open International University for Complementary Medicine, Sri Lanka; commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1937; service with 1 Bn, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Colchester, Essex, 1937-1939; served in World War Two in the UKand Italy, 1939-1945; Lt, 1940; temporary Capt, 1940-1942; War Substantive Capt, 1942; temporary Maj, 1942-1945; Capt, 1945; temporary Maj, 1945-1949; service in Greece, Egypt and Cyprus, 1948-1958; Maj, 1950; served with 1 Bn, Royal Green Jackets on its formation, 1958; Lt Col, 1959; awarded OBE, 1959; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Royal Green Jackets, 1959-1962; Security Commander, Aden, 1962-1964; commanded 129 Infantry Bde, Territorial Army, 1964-1966; Brig, 1966; Chief of Staff, UN Peacekeeping Force, Cyprus, 1966-1968; retired, 1968; Chief Security Officer, Sierra Leone Selection Trust Limited, 1969-1970; Vice President, International PeaceAcademy, 1971-1973; Consultant, 1973-1997; Visiting Senior Lecturer in Peace Studies, Bradford University, 1974-1979; Consultant, United World College of Atlantic, 1974-1981; Vice President, UN Association (UK), 1974-1997; Member, Management Committee,Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1978-1989; Education Planning Director, British Council for Aid to Refugees (Vietnamese Section), 1979-1980; General Secretary, World Disarmament Campaign, 1980-1982; Member of Generals (retired) for Peace and Disarmament, 1981-1990; Director, Centre for International Peacebuilding, 1983-1997; Co-ordinator, Worldwide Consultative Association of Retired Generals and Admirals, 1991-1997; Member, International Council, Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, USA, 1992-1997; Consultant/Adviser, International Institute for Peaceful Change; died 1997.Publications: The impartial soldier (Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1970); The blue berets (Leo Cooper, London, 1971); The thin blue line. International peacekeeping and its future, with Indar Jit Rikhye and Bjørn Egge (Yale University Press, London, 1974); The knaves of diamonds (Seeley Service, London, 1976); Waging war on war:the need for new concepts of common security for Europe (Project for Peace Studies, Oxford, 1988); Investing charity funds (Jordans, Bristol, 1995).