Early Life and Career
Andrews Stunell was born in Sutton, Surrey and educated at Surbiton County Grammar School for Boys (moved to Thames Ditton as Esher County Grammar School with the former buildings becoming Hollyfield School, then became Esher College in 1977) on St Marks Hill in Surbiton, then studied Architecture at University of Manchester and Liverpool Polytechnic. He became a member of RIBA in 1969.
After graduation he was an architectural assistant until 1989, working for CWS Manchester from 1965-7, Runcorn New Town from 1967–81, then freelance 1981-5. From 1989–96 he worked as Political Secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1993. Stunell married Gillian Chorley in 1967. They have three sons and two daughters and he is a former Baptist lay preacher and an active member of his local Methodist church.
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