Personal Life
In 1977 his first marriage foundered and he gave up professional acting and magic to work from home so that he could look after his two pre-teenage sons. To earn a reasonable living he had to provide 40 crosswords a week. The head of crosswords at Central Press Features suggested he claim the title of "most prolific crossword compiler" and Norris McWhirter of Guinness Records accepted this claim in 1978.
Squires is now married to Anna who brought along a 3-yr old stepdaughter Tamsin, now a doctor, to add to his stepson Simon, now a Yacht-master in Thailand, and his own son Michael, a vet with his own Sheffield practice. Michael, with wife Charlotte, has now provided grandchildren Esme and Oscar.
A keen sportsman, Squires represented the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm at football and cricket and is a qualified Football Association Coach and Referee. He played competitive squash until age 65. He stills swims regularly.
Read more about this topic: Roger Squires
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality.... Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it’s the other things which are the more permanent and real.”
—Brian Friel (b. 1929)