Aged 54; married with three children. Educated Hull
Grammar School, Edinburgh University (MA in Politics) and the
University of London (postgraduate diploma in Public Administration).
| 1971-74 | Administrative Trainee in Fire and Criminal Justice Departments
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| 1974 | Higher Executive Officer (Development), Committee on Future of Broadcasting
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| 1974-76 | Private Secretary to Minister of State, Lord Harris of Greenwich
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| 1976-78 | Grade 7, Police Department (Metropolitan Police Liaison Officer)
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| 1978-79 | Nuffield and Leverhulme Travelling Fellowship, studying the law on and policing of public disorder
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| 1979-81 | Grade 7, Police Department; wrote the Green Paper on the Review of the Public Order Act 1936
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| 1981 | Secretary of Lord Scarman's Inquiry into the Brixton disturbances
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| 1981-83 | Grade 7, Personnel Department, HM Prison Service, responsible for prison staff discipline
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| 1984-87 | Grade 5, Head of Industrial Relations, HM Prison Service
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| 1987-89 | Principal Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon. Douglas Hurd
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| 1989-90 | Grade 3, Cabinet Office; Head of Home and Social Affairs and Legislation Unit
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| 1990- | Secretary General of the General Synod of the Church of England. From 1999 also Secretary General of the Archbishops' Council
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