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Thomas Albert Fox (aka Terry Edwards), was my uncle, and one of the most important people in my life. A King Edward VI grammar school scholarship boy, from Swaythling, he left school at sixteen to serve an electronics apprenticeship in the Royal Air Force. And yet, his body of published work, poetry, political essays and children’s stories are what we have to remember him by.

From age 18 years he completed a twelve-year engagement, traveling to and serving in many parts of Britain, including the Outer Hebrides, and abroad in the Near and Middle East. He worked on tactical air navigation systems, commutated antenna direction finding, airfield control radar and ground to air communication. Of the twelve years he served two 2-year tours as a Senior Technician Instructor at the then Royal Air Force Radio School at Locking, near Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.

On completing his engagement in 1972 he took a State Scholarship to read English Literature & Philosophy honours at the University of Bristol, while also working in the building industry. He joined the Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) at this time and was elected to serve in Branch, Regional and National lay official positions.

After Bristol University he took an MSc in Management at the University of Bath and in 1982 also took a Master of Education degree specializing in Curriculum Studies. In 1978 he was appointed to lecture in Management at the then City of Bath Technical College, where he also served as Branch Chairman and County Negotiator for the lecturers' union NATFHE. He also served as the local education officer for the British Institute of Management and as a Bath City Councillor and Deputy Leader of his political group. He has undertaken many practical consultancies to industry and formulated, developed and worked widely within several major EU projects, managing two large projects in Civil Engineering and in the Arts centred on post-Ceausescu Romania and involving seven EU countries. He has presented major Highways development proposals at the World Bank in Washington and to several foreign governments.