Joc was born at Totteridge, the eldest child of Ronald. A few days later his father was invited to Shanghai to restore relationships between Chinese Christian students and the British community after a riot.
When the family left Tyneside for Hong Kong, Joc and Judith were taught at first by 'Kenny' [Nancy McKenna from Newcastle]. When they returned from furlough in England in 1936 Joc went to the Diocesan Boys School, until he was brought back to England to school in Brackley and then at St Edward's School in Oxford.
For his National Service he joined the RAF and became a wireless operator in Lancasters with the rank of Flight Sergeant, but the wars in Europe and the Pacific ended before he went operational.
When he was demobbed, he studied at Borough Polytechnic, and then worked on ferroceramics at Plesseys in Towcester.
Scouting was his major interest, leading a troop in East London, and as a Rover Scout he attended a Moot in Switzerland.
On his way to a dentist appointment in Oxford, he died in a motorcycle accident three weeks before his 30th birthday. This photo was taken two months before as a present for his father's 60th birthday. His ashes are buried before the altar rail in Harpsden Church near Henley-on-Thames alongside many of his ancestors.

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