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Honorary Fellow: Association For Scottish Literary Studies

“If we investigate only by physical and chemical means, we can only get physical and chemical answers.”

Sir Alister Hardy, FRS

Biography

On leaving school, Hector’s first employment offered training to become an Insurance Valuator & Assessor, but constant sight of the adjacent Anchor Line offices brought about a change of plan. After obtaining the necessary certificate he became a sea-going Radio Officer.

Following his marriage he came ashore to work as an electronics technician with Glasgow University, going on to work in Nuclear research at CERN in Geneva. After four years in Switzerland he returned to Scotland to work in Oceanographic research, followed by some years in Nucleonics with medical and industrial applications. The sale of a first television play then launched a new career as full-time Playwright.

For over forty years now he has combined the life of a freelance dramatist with research into Luthery. Making full use of developments in acoustics and psycho-acoustics, his new Violins and Violas continue to attract professional attention.

1929 Born Tollcross, Glasgow

1943 Terminated Secondary School education.

1948 Qualified as sea-going Radio Officer.

1949-50 National Service in Royal Signals.

1950-54 Radio Officer in Merchant Navy.

1954-56. Electronics technician, Department of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University.

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1956-60. Electronics technician, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, [CERN], Geneva.

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1960-61. Experimental Officer, Scottish Marine Biological Association, Isle of Cumbrae.

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1961-67. Technical representative for Electronics company.