He is married to Teresa Denney one of Anthony Denney’s twin daughters.
He is a professional electrical engineer and consultant working with Ryton
Associates. He is trained in the methodologies of research, problem solving
and project management with a Ph.D from the University of St Andrews. His
main tasks in the Denney case have been:
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to trace the vanished loan collection on behalf of Anthony Denney’s family;
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coordinate the international legal activity to establish their rights of
inheritance; ·
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to assist the Denney family in public relations.
With a long-standing interest in the History of Technology, and a Past
Chairman of the Institution of Electrical Engineers Committee S7 on History
of Technology, he is currently Chairman of the IEE
Archives Committee
He organised the IEE exhibition within the Northern Electric Pavilion
at the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990. At the request of the Mayor and
the Curator of the Town Museum of Colditz, he recently organised the material
for the exhibition of watercolours "Everyday life in Oflag IVC Colditz",
done by his father W.F.Anderson, while a Prisoner of War (1941-45). The
exhibition was part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the
liberation of the town by the American Army in 1945 and is now on permanent
display in Colditz Castle,
Saxony.
He is a regular contributor of book reviews to the New Scientist.
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