Businessman and Fellow of the Newcastle Society of Antiquities.
Lecturer in English, including a post as Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College between 1946 and 1959.
English scholar, Reader in English Literature at Newcastle University, first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria.
A paediatric neurologist who specialised in muscular dystrophy, a naturalist, and an an expert on Thomas Bewick.
An English theatre, radio, television and non-fiction writer and former television producer and executive.