Married 'Living' 30 December 1955 at St Peter's Church, Deptford, London
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Married 'Living' 17 September 1982 at Plymouth Registry Office, Devon
Notes: Robert spent his infant and junior school days at Deansfield Road schoo ls before in 1939 winning a scholarship to St. Olaves and St. Saviours Gra mmar School for Boys near Tower Bridge in the centre of London. Within wee ks the school had been evacuated and Robert spent most of World War T wo in Torquay, where he joined the Boy Scouts and acquired what was to bec ome a life-long interest in biology. His first job after school was in t he laboratory of Coates Brothers, makers of paints and inks. Later came w ork in the laboratories of Guy’s Hospital Medical School and explosives r esearch at Woolwich Arsenal. At the same time he played banjo in a jazz ba nd and took up an interest in photography. A part time course at Woolwich Polytechnic led to the Inter B.Sc, a maj or county scholarship from the Greater London Council, and full-time cour se at the Poly, where he met his first wife. A B.Sc led to a job in the ch emistry and biolchemistry department of St Thomas’s hospital medical schoo l, and eventually a doctorate. During the four years at St.Thomas’s Robe rt and Sylvia were married and their first two sons were born. During five years spent in Uganda reseaching the tsetse fly, son number th ree arrived . On returning to the UK Robert got a teaching post in Ramsgat e, Kent, and bought his first house in Foads Lane, Cliffsend. It was he re that he started to collect and understand fossils, a hobby that w as to lead to far greater things. (to be continued) Robert and Sylvia were divorced in 1980. Robert moved to Plymouth whe re he married Jan, a New Yorker of Russian Jewish immigrant stock with a d octorate in marine biology from the Open University. Between them they now run their own company, Knight Scientific, specialisi ng in state of the art medical research. [Vik's updated Tree.FTW] Robert spent his infant and junior school days at Deansfield Road schoo ls before in 1939 winning a scholarship to St. Olaves and St. Saviours Gra mmar School for Boys near Tower Bridge in the centre of London. Within wee ks the school had been evacuated and Robert spent most of World War T wo in Torquay, where he joined the Boy Scouts and acquired what was to bec ome a life-long interest in biology. His first job after school was in t he laboratory of Coates Brothers, makers of paints and inks. Later came w ork in the laboratories of Guy’s Hospital Medical School and explosives r esearch at Woolwich Arsenal. At the same time he played banjo in a jazz ba nd and took up an interest in photography. A part time course at Woolwich Polytechnic led to the Inter B.Sc, a maj or county scholarship from the Greater London Council, and full-time cour se at the Poly, where he met his first wife. A B.Sc led to a job in the ch emistry and biolchemistry department of St Thomas’s hospital medical schoo l, and eventually a doctorate. During the four years at St.Thomas’s Robe rt and Sylvia were married and their first two sons were born. During five years spent in Uganda reseaching the tsetse fly, son number th ree arrived . On returning to the UK Robert got a teaching post in Ramsgat e, Kent, and bought his first house in Foads Lane, Cliffsend. It was he re that he started to collect and understand fossils, a hobby that w as to lead to far greater things. (to be continued) Robert and Sylvia were divorced in 1980. Robert moved to Plymouth whe re he married Jan, a New Yorker of Russian Jewish immigrant stock with a d octorate in marine biology from the Open University. Between them they now run their own company, Knight Scientific, specialisi ng in state of the art medical research.