Citatations
Citatations
Award of Merit
Professor Dick Godwin has a unique combination of academic, practical farming and management skills that have been moulded together in an outstanding career in the field of Agricultural Engineering.
As a researcher, he has made internationally recognised contributions particularly in the fields of soil dynamics, soil and waste management and precision agriculture. His contributions have resulted in the improved fundamental understanding of soil dynamics and force prediction methods, the development of improved soil engaging tools and an identification of the role that advanced technologies can make when implemented via precision farming approaches. Dick has played a major role in transferring principles identified in his research to machine designers, extension advisors and practicing farmers in collaborative projects, development contracts and targeted training courses. Applications of his work have gone beyond the boundaries of conventional agricultural engineering and have involved such diverse subjects as the placement and retrieval of buried telecommunications cables from the sea bed, improved tines for the lifting of mines by battlefield tanks, the support mechanisms for reinforced soils along airport runway margins and the rolling resistance and lateral forces encountered by aircraft undercarriage wheels landing on soil surfaces.
As an educator, Dick has been involved with more than 50 doctoral students. He has taught numerous courses in soil dynamics and soil and water management and developed Master level courses in agricultural engineering, precision farming and soil management. He has published more than 90 papers in refereed journals, 130 conference proceedings and given a number of keynote presentations. He has been an external examiner at a number of national and international universities.
Dick has been a member of the Institution and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for more than 40 years. He was president of IAgrE in 1994-96 and served as International Membership Director of ASABE between 1992 and 1994. he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of international journal publications and a trustee of both the Douglas Bomford Trust and Claas Foundation.
Dick officially retired from Cranfield University at the end of 2007 but his work with academic and other institutions has not stopped. He holds Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Professorships in agricultural engineering from Cranfield University, Czech University of Life Sciences and Harper Adams University College respectively, and he continues to provide academic leadership and supervision of research student programmes in these capacities. He has received many awards recognising the contribution that he has made to the agricultural engineering industry including, in 2005, the John Deere Gold Medal Award for outstanding contributions in the agricultural engineering field and in 2007, the ECPA/AGCO award for his exceptional achievement and lifetime contribution to the development of agricultural engineering. This year he will be awarded a DSC Honoris causa by the Slovak University of Agriculture.
It is entirely fitting that the Institution should award Professor Dick Godwin the Award of Merit in recognition of the truly outstanding contribution he has made to so many aspects of our profession.
Award of Merit
Sir Anthony Bamford became Chairman and Managing Director of JCB at the end of 1975, succeeding his father, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE, who founded the company 30 years earlier. His career began with a two year apprenticeship at Massey Ferguson in France before he started work at the Rocester headquarters in 1964.
Under Sir Anthony’s leadership, JCB has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most successful manufacturers of construction and agricultural equipment. JCB has won more than 50 premier awards for exports, marketing, design, technology and for its care for the environment, among them 23 Queen’s Awards for Technological and Export achievement.
Whilst the heart of JCB’s success lies within the Construction equipment industry, there is no doubt that Sir Anthony’s personal interest in farming and the rural environment has steered the company towards considerable success in the manufacture of machines specifically designed for the Agricultural industry.
Derivatives of the company’s ranges of telescopic handlers and wheeled loading shovels in particular have been developed for farm use. Changes in machine layout, engine specification, transmission and tyre equipment set JCB Agricultural machines apart from those designed for the Construction market. In 1991 the introduction of the award winning JCB Fastrac range of high speed and high performance tractors showed yet again that JCB was a company intent on setting new standards in machine performance and operator comfort. In an intensely competitive market the Fastrac has continued to find favour wherever in the world highly productive agriculture is practised.
Together with his wife, Lady Bamford, Sir Anthony has converted his farming operations in the UK to fully organic status. The establishment of farm shops in Gloucestershire and London under the Daylesford Organic brand has set new standards in the promotion of the very best in British organic food production.
He is active in charitable work through the Bamford Charitable Foundation but his continuing professional concern is the success of JCB which today exports more than 75% of its machines to 150 countries around the world.
Throughout changing and sometimes difficult times, Sir Anthony has led JCB with energy and enthusiasm. His passion for Engineering excellence and innovation has been a major contributor to the success of the JCB Group of companies now manufacturing in 18 plants across four continents.
He is a most worthy recipient of the 2008 IAgrE Award of Merit in recognition of a lifetime’s contribution to the industry.
Honorary Fellow
Dan Mitchell has been presented with an Honorary Fellowship for his outstanding career contribution in Agricultural and Energy engineering and The Institution of Agricultural Engineers.
He graduated initially from Wye College then became an assistant farm manager in Kent for a summer before joining the staff at Walford College as a mechanization lecturer. During his year at Walford he managed the Electricity Council's project to evaluate the Dutch hay drying system including designing and fabricating the reinforcing steel in the trials barn. From Walford he went to Reading to take a two year MAgrSc in Farm Buildings and thanks to Electricity Council support carried out research on electric underfloor heating for pigs. He was also awarded second prize in a national farm buildings design competition.
From Reading Dan moved to the Scottish Farm Buildings Unit in Aberdeen for the next 11 years. Over 60 papers and articles were produced from his research and advisory work and he developed four commercial products:
He then joined the Electricity Council's Farm Energy Centre in 1979 as National Livestock Specialist and 18 months later became its Manager after Peter Wakeford retired. Dan managed the centre and national advisory service for 20 years which included 10 years before privatization and ten years after privatization. He built a very effective team. Because he and his staff had always worked closely with the fifteen UK electricity companies as a technical support service and Dan had a clear strategy and knew all fifteen Chairmen personally, the FEC was one of only a handful of services to survive privatization.
During his 20 years as manager of FEC he was responsible for over 200 R&D projects, the publication of over 110 publications from the research program which were used widely by Farmers Growers and Colleges and the development of a rapid response advisory service throughout the UK. The FEC was the only such unit in the world until Dan won contracts to establish six similar units in South Africa and one in New Zealand. Over a period of 15 years he helped to establish six Farm Energy Centres in South Africa with a total of about 120 staff. Many of the electrical techniques developed in the UK were introduced to SA including the air knife for drying acacia nuts and oranges, cool storage to reduce wastage in vegetable production supplementary lighting in horticulture and electric underfloor heating for both Ostriches and intensive Crocodile production. As electricity became more available in rural areas, thanks to television the birth rate also went down!
He increased the number of electricity companies funding FEC from 15 to 22 including those in Italy, Australia and New Zealand. Dan represented the UK Electricity Companies at international energy conferences and in Brussels as a widely recognized specialist in his field.
In recognition of his drive and positive approach he received two Electricity industry Management Awards and was made a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies (FRAgS). He is also a member of The Farmers Club.
He retired in 1999 to establish his own Engineering Consultancy and has continued to work for key Energy and Building companies. He also became Visiting Reader in Engineering at Harper Adams and a member of the advisory Council for the Royal Agricultural College. He is also a judge for the CLAAS Stiftung awards. At Harper he won studentships for Agricultural Engineering students from CLAAS. John Deere and The Douglas Bomford Trust From 2002 to 2004 he became President of IAgrE and set out a clear strategy for the Institution based on three key points
Now seven years after initiating the above ideas, 1700 young engineers have become student members of IAgrE and over 10% have continued their professional membership. Over 40 individuals have also joined via the eminence route.
Dan has supported the Institution in just about every way possible, including establishing a mentoring service, effectively chasing defaulters and serving on Membership, Branch, Council and Executive committees. He is well known for his positive thinking and he earned the nickname “Dr. Positive” many years ago.
Outside work he has a very wide range of interests including building projects, Sailing, restoring old sports cars, gardening and helping his Church. He has a very wide circle of friends and is also dedicated to helping young engineers through his effective mentoring because he benefited from excellent mentors throughout his career. He wishes to pay a special thank you to Tony Harris, Vice Principal at Walford then Principal at Harper Adams, and Hamish Shiach, past Head of Engineering at SAC Aberdeen and past President of IAgrE, for their mentoring and friendship.
Award for Contribution to the Land Based Sector
Dr Steve Parkin has spent most of his working life involved with crop spraying. He studied Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology gaining his PhD in the “Atomisation of Liquids”. He then joined Cranfield Institute of Technology, initially as a research physicist with the CIBA-Geigy Agricultural Aviation Research Unit. This grew into the International centre for the Application of Pesticides (ICAP) at Cranfield and Steve grew with it to become Head of Research within the Centre, there developing his lecturing and student supervision skills.
By the end of the 1980’s he was a Senior Lecturer within ICAP but changes in relation to the funding of the ICAP prompted a move by Steve to the Silsoe college campus where he became Senior Lecturer in Agrochemical Applications. A decade later Steve crossed the A6 to Silsoe Research Institute where he was a research engineer within the chemical Applications Group at the Institute and led the Group for a short period.
An established expert in the field of agricultural pesticide application, Steve has made an important contribution to a wide range of research and development projects. His knowledge of aerial application has been in demand world-wide with particular links to the Middle East, Australia and Canada. His work has extended beyond the conventional arable farm and he has worked on spray applications on railways, in amenity areas, in glasshouses and with applying disinfectants in food processing areas.
Steve has made, a continues to make, a very important and valued contribution to the work of the Institution. He joined in 1990 and is both a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Engineer. He is a member of the Membership Committee which he has chaired since 1999, and has been a member of the Executive Committee since that date. He has played a key role in the recruitment of members, in the setting of academic and auditable standards to meet the requirements of Engineering Council (UK) and in the accreditation of courses through the Institution.
Over the past eighteen months, Steve has been working with Prof. Bill Day to edit the Journal Biosystems Engineering for the Institution. The changes relating to the ownership and editing of the Journal have brought new challenges for Steve and he has addressed these with his usual enthusiastic determination. The smooth transition to the new ownership and editorial management of the Journal is a credit to the work that Bill Day and Steve have put in to this project.
Steve and his wife Maggie are keen canal boating enthusiasts and own a 60’ narrow boat named Albert, based on the Grand Union Canal at Northamptonshire and powered by a Ruston & Hornsby 2YWM diesel. They even have a website dedicated to Albert where there is the opportunity to listen to Albert’s diesel running!
Dr Steve Parkin is a very well deserved recipient of the award for the contribution to the Landbased Sector, recognising the input he has made to the subject of agricultural crop spraying and his tremendous contribution to the running of IAgrE.
Award for Contribution to the Land Based Sector
Peter joined the staff of the National College of Agricultural Engineering at Silsoe as a Lecturer in Engineering Design in 1969 following a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manchester University and a Graduate Training programme and early career in engineering design with Holman Brothers Ltd in Cornwall.
During his career at Silsoe – finally retiring in 2006, Peter lectured in a full range of subjects from basic engineering modules such as strength of materials and engineering design, where he pioneering the teaching of CAD/CAM, through to applied modules in tractor-implement mechanics and transportation systems analysis. Peter was actively involved with the management of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and higher degree by research students. He supervised very many undergraduate and postgraduate students, including doctoral candidates. This latter group was primarily in the area of transportation systems analysis for developing countries which was a key interest of Peter and one where he received both Master of Science by Research and Doctoral Degrees from Cranfield University.
In the mid 1970’s Peter was seconded from Silsoe to work in Malawi to test and evaluate the use of simple winch drawn cultivation systems – namely SNAIL and SPYDER , this he did with two other stalwarts of the agricultural engineering profession – John Kilgour and Barny Muckle. These systems used the power of small affordable engines to apply a direct pull to the implement rather than be lost in the inefficiency of tractor wheel slip.
The African experience energised Peter’s interest in the developing world and triggered a number of following consultancy activities. In 1987 and 1988 Peter became involved with the logistics of the famine relief program in Ethiopia and spent time truck driving in addition to his more strategic planning role. This work was followed by two major projects sponsored by the Department for International Development on the role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in supporting rural transport services in the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. In this work the aim was to improve transportation efficiency by spreading the best practice from Asia to Africa.
Recently Peter has been involved in the coordination of pan European Agricultural Engineering degree qualifications, the Club of Bologna and has supported the Helmut Claas Foundation as a Member of the UK Panel of Judges by reviewing potential Award Winners.
With his co-authors Peter has published, over 30 referred papers and conference proceedings, two handbooks and a textbook on Small Farm Mechanisation for Developing Countries. Overall this is a very significant contribution to the Agricultural Engineering profession, both in the United Kingdom and overseas, and is very worthy of a Lifetime Contribution Award.
Peter’s hobbies currently include caravanning and bike riding with his wife Sheila and like those of many agricultural engineers of tackling major DIY projects in the home and garden. Amateur dramatics and barber shop singing have also featured as significant interests.
Award for Contribution to the Land Based Sector
Harry Catling has been working in the Land Based Sector for a period of sixty years and has been a member of the Institution for fifty-six years since joining as a Student when studying at Lackham College in 1952.
He originally hailed from Sheffield where he did an apprenticeship in agricultural engineering before coming south for his NDAgrE studies.
Following qualification Harry moved north again to the Leeds University Farm for a short period before moving to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, as an Assistant Lecturer in 1957. He stayed until his retirement in 1997 when he was a Principal Lecturer and Head of Agricultural Engineering and Farm Mechanisation. During this period Harry added to his qualifications by graduating as a BA(Science and Technology) from the Open University in 1985. He also rose through the Institution grades to Fellow in 1995.
Apart from teaching the many generations of students who passed through his hands Harry maintained many other land based interests. He was an active member of Western Branch filling all the major roles over the years. This was recognised with the Branch Meritorious Service Award in 1992.
At national level Harry has served on lAgrE Council as a Branch Representative and also on the Membership Committee for twenty six years (so far). He has held various Engineering Council appointments representing them on the committees of other Engineering Institutions.
Harry’s retirement from the staff of RAC did not mean the end of his working life for he still works part time for a dealership on warranty claims and also continues his interest in the training and Certification of sprayer operators.
Harry’s career surely represents a sustained contribution to the Land Based Sector which few can match and is undoubtedly worthy of recognition by the Institution at the highest level.
Michael Dwyer Memorial Prize
Dr Mark Moore is an internationally recognised expert in the subject area of precision farming and the application of technology to agriculture and is often asked to speak on this subject at conferences and technical meetings throughout the world. His current position as Product Manager – Global for AGCO Ltd. involves developing medium to long term strategies for developing technological products across all brands and regions – brands that include such well known names as Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra and Challenger. He travels widely and works to produce business cases for his company to invest in high technology products, seeks to define and explain the benefits that can come from such products and is involved with communicating these benefits to senior management and marketing teams.
Mark started his training by completing an HND at Rycotewood College before going to Silsoe College (Cranfield University) where he gained a 1st class Honours degree in Agricultural Management and Technology. He joined AGCO in 1990 initially as a Product Support Specialist and at the same time registered at Cranfield University to study for a PhD while continuing his work.
Mark’s association with the AGCO “Fieldstar” system and subsequent precision farming platforms has been pivotal to the contribution he has made in this technical area. Massey Ferguson/AGCO became involved with many projects seeking to develop and exploit precision farming technologies with partners from both commercial and research and development organisations, and Mark was instrumental in establishing the Precision Farming Alliance that has aimed at providing a forum for practical farmers, researchers and technologists to share ideas and experiences relating to precision farming systems. One of Mark’s major strengths is the ability to continue the practical aspects of his work, developed from first hand experience of working on farms, with both the technical and managerial aspects. His completed PhD made an important contri bution to precision farming – yield mapping and beyond – and his career within AGCO has developed rapidly and involved him spending a lot of time outside of the UK.
Dr Mark Moore is the ideal candidate for receiving the Michael Dwyer Memorial Prize and is very well deserving of the award.
Branch Meritorious Award
John Sartain has been a member of IAgrE for over 48 years and has contributed to the East Midlands Branch since moving to Southwell in August 1993.
John was a senior adviser with the Agricultural Training Board when its HQ was in Beckenham, Kent. Prior to that, he worked overseas where he assisted in setting up workshops and training in South America.
After taking early retirement in 1990, he set up Tamarind Associates which provided commercial training, management and consultancy services in the UK and overseas. This has included the provision of training needs assessments and course development together with the delivery of training, management and rural development skills training courses in the UK and overseas, particularly in Africa and South East Asia.
John has also worked with both government and non-government organisations working in the areas of emergency relief in the developing world. Of particular importance has been John’s work in the training of trainers, particularly in participatory training techniques.
His work closer to home has involved the organisation of European seminars and conferences on a range of rural and country side matters and has included consultancy relating to mechanisation management and the provision of advice to the Department for Education and Employment on occupational standards and qualifications programmes over a wide range of occupational sectors.
In 1998, he established Gotech Technology Ltd., a company which aimed to facilitate the advancement, adoption and effective application of new technologies to support the sustainable use of natural resources. More recently, John formed a small company specialising in the application of precision farming techniques. Gotech is a member of a large European research consortium dealing with the development of generic computer software for the interpretation and use of remote sensing data for land use applications.
As well as serving at Branch and National level on IAgrE committees, John is also a stalwart of the LAMMA show organisation committee.
Support for this award has been unanimous among both current and past Branch committee members as well as those members of the Branch who understand his long term and sustained contribution to the successful workings of the Branch.
Branch Meritorious Award
Richard Trevarthen has been a member of IAgrE for over 28 years and maintains his professional IEng registration through the Institution.
Embodying the practical “can do” attitude of the industry, he has contributed greatly to the area of Agricultural Education and has done so with boundless enthusiasm. He has instilled this ethos into the many hundreds of young engineers and apprentices who have crossed his path and has passed on his infectious enthusiasm and passion for the industry to many others.
Richard has worked at Brooksby-Melton College since 1969, the last 27 years of that time being as Head of the Engineering Department. From 1992, Richard has been closely involved with John Deere UK with the development and introduction of the John Deere sponsored Ag-Tech apprenticeship programme. This scheme has become the industry benchmark for such programmes and over 260 students from dealers as far apart as Cornwall and the Orkneys have participated and benefited from Richard’s high standards and enthusiasm.
His determination to excel has resulted in some of his students achieving the highest levels of recognition including 12 City & Guilds Medals for Excellence. In addition students have also won the Learning and Skills Council Modern Apprentice of the Year Award and the UK Skills competition. The highest accolade was a National Training Award won in 1997 against stiff competition from over 1000 competitors.
On a more personal level, in 2004 Richard won the coveted national Star Award from the Learning and Skills Development Agency for his outstanding contribution and achievements. He is no stranger to receiving personal recognition for his work and in 2006 he was awarded from City & Guilds a Highly Commended Medal of Excellence for delivering quality training.
Apart from his work at Brooksby-Melton College, Richard has been heavily involved in developing the standards, curriculum and qualifications for the industry to which he is still devoted despite his recent retirement. Richards’s enthusiasm for engineering and farm machinery spills over into private life and hobbies where he runs a stock car racing team with his son. He also has a strong interest in vintage tractors and machinery.
Richard has been instrumental in encouraging young people to join IAgrE also encouraging them to attend East Midlands Branch events.
Support for this award to Richard has been unanimous among the current Branch Committee and other members consulted.
Branch Meritorious Award
A member of IAgrE since 1980, Neal joined as a student whilst at Rycotewood College. He progressed to the grade of Member in 1986.
IEng registered through IAgrE, Neal’s career progression has culminated in his current employment as Engineering/Mechanisation Lecturer at Coleg Powys, Newtown, Wales.
An active member of the Wrekin Branch since 1998, Neal has been a long-standing member of the branch committee and is a former Treasurer and Secretary of the Branch.
Being an active branch member and attending branch meetings and events is something that most members will do on an infrequent basis or, at best, as and when the meetings are of interest to them, or “in the area”. To regularly attend meetings that are generally held more than 50 miles away, (meaning a 100 mile round trip), rushing home from work to share a quick bite with your family and then heading off to a meeting that will not see you back at home until nearly midnight, tests the resolve and commitment of the best of us. Neal has done this both as a stalwart member of the Institution and Wrekin Branch.
His Branch Meritorious Award is well deserved and wholeheartedly supported by the branch committee.
Branch Meritorious Award
Terence Chambers joined IAgrE in 1975 and was a member of the first Committee of the Northern Ireland branch when this was formed in 1979/80.
Since that time he has remained a stalwart of the Committee, serving as the Branch’s third Chairman from 1983/84 and 1984/85 during a critical period in its development. He has been Press Officer from 1994 to the present day and arranged numerous Branch meetings on a wide range of topics.
Terence worked for many years as a senior farm mechanisation advisor and lecturer in the then Ministry and now Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, before his career emphasis shifted to Health and Safety. He became Principal Agriculture Health and Safety Inspector for N.I. and for a period before his retirement became Acting Deputy Chief Health and Safety Inspector for N.I.
Despite his years spent in public service Terence, or Terry as he is universally known throughout the industry in Northern Ireland, continues to bring to the Institution an infectious enthusiasm for the engineering and mechanisation but with a strong grounding in practical farming and agricultural contracting. His ability to communicate effectively is evident through the comprehensive reports of Institution meetings which appear regularly in the local farming Press, and the occasions on which he has chaired discussions and Branch Conferences.
Terry has also retained a lifelong passion for deep sea fishing; an interest which has benefited the Branch on at least two occasions through fascinating visits to fishing vessels – fortunately for those less adventurous souls – safely tied up in port on both occasions.
Terence Chambers has provided almost 30 years outstanding service to the Northern Ireland branch of the Institution.
Branch Meritorious Award
Dr Peter Frost joined the Institution in 1977 and was a member of the first committee; formed when the Branch was established in 1979/80. Since that time Peter has been a staunch supporter of the Branch – serving on the Branch committee continuously since 1979; and as Chairman during 1986/87 and 1987/88.
Peter has acted as Branch Secretary on two occasions; initially for 4 years from 1981/82 to 1984/85 and he stepped into the breach again to help out in 2000/01 and 2001/02; this despite his busy workload. He has also served periods as Branch Programme Organiser (1992/93 to 1995/96) and Branch Representative on Council (1997/98 to 2001/02).
After an initial period working as a farm machinery lecturer at Loughry Agricultural College, Peter moved to the Agricultural Research Institute for Northern Ireland (ARINI), Hillsborough, where he has enjoyed a successful career in research and development. His brief at Hillsborough also included lecturing on farm mechanisation to students on the undergraduate programme at Queens University, Belfast. Peter has presented the subject of his work on a number of occasions at Branch meetings and regularly uses his wide network of contacts to organise technical meetings for the Branch.
With Branch meetings regularly held at ARINI or its successor Agrifood and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Peter invariably ends up as unofficial host for the evening and makes all the arrangements on behalf of the Branch. This situation continues during 2007/08 with the meeting on February 13th 2008 being held at AFBI Hillsborough. This meeting will again be hosted by Dr Frost and will be an opportunity for Branch Members to learn about Hillsborough’s development as a “Centre of Excellence” for renewable energies.
It is our view that Peter Frost has provided almost 30 years of outstanding service to the Northern Ireland Branch of the Institution, and this should be recognised through a Branch Meritorious Service Award.
Technical Group Meritorious Award
Following his graduation from the University of Liverpool, David has had a long and varied career in civil engineering and, more latterly, in forestry civil engineering. He started as a graduate engineer with Freeman Fox & Partners working on minor highway structures on the M5 in Devon carrying out further work on road schemes in Cornwall.
In 1976, David worked on a variety of projects in the Middle East including:
David then worked variously for Robertson Research International as an Engineer in the petroleum division and Travers Morgan where he was responsible for a team of engineers and technicians supervising all aspects of roadworks.
David’s involvement with forestry civil engineering started in 1984 when, as Area Civil Engineer, he was responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of forest roads and bridges for the Forestry Commission in the Llanrwst area. He then moved through a variety of positions with the Forestry Commission including:
until his current appointment (in 1998) as Head of Forestry Civil Engineering for the Forestry Commission.
Currently on the Council of IAgrE and a member of the IAgrE Membership Committee, David is also a long standing member of the Forestry Engineering Group (FEG) of IAgrE and has been its Chairman for the last seven years. His involvement in the planning and delivery of FEG meetings is an important factor in the group’s outstanding success. He continues to be active in the group regularly giving talks at the FEG Annual Conference and at IAgrE Branch meetings.
A Chartered Environmentalist as well as a Chartered Engineer, David has authored a variety of papers presented at FEG meetings and symposia.
When not working, David is a Lay Preacher with his local Evangelical Church and is active with Gideons International. He also uses every excuse to visit Wales on business. It is probably only a coincidence that his Grandson lives in Wales.