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362:. He was involved with national policy making with Britain's Salmon & Trout Association and was a chairman of the Fisheries Committee's Hampshire River Board. In 1952 he married Anna Griffith with whom he had two daughters. The couple divorced after seven years of marriage, and he married a second time in 1961 to Diana Dobson with whom he had another daughter.
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