Education
Born in Halton, Buckinghamshire, he moved to Hebden near Grassington in 1980. He went to Burnsall Primary School in Burnsall then Upper Wharfedale School, a secondary modern school in Threshfield. He studied Environmental Science at the Stoke campus of Staffordshire University where he took up the sport of rowing with the Boat Club on Rudyard Lake and St Catherine's College, Oxford where he undertook an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management.
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