Old Princethorpians

After leaving Princethorpe in the late 80s I completed my A levels at Warwickshire College, before heading off for a Law and Business Degree at Sheffield Hallam University for 2 years.

I took a year out pursuing the dream of becoming a professional rugby player, playing for Leicester Tigers,sadly it didn’t work out as planned, so I continued with my studies and completed my degree locally at UCE Birmingham University.

I then went on to Law School at the College of Law in Birmingham.

I worked initially as a contracts sales manager at Capitol Tile Supplies in Coventry, and then for Wright Hassall, a olicitors Leamington, before getting a training contract (articles) in 2007 with Button Legal Solicitors, Warwick Road Coventry. I was entered on to the role of solicitors in Jan 2009 and made partner in the firm in June 2010 specialising in everything to do with property law, buying, selling and transferring residential and commercial property, disputes over land and property etc.

I live in Warwick with my partner Emma and daughter Poppy Mae (15 months), we are expecting twin boys in December, which will keep us busy! I still play rugby for Broadstreet RFC in Coventry and play golf when I have the time, which is not very often!

I am the owner of a great hotel in the Costa Del Sol, visit www.hotelalbayzindelmar.com

Od Princethorpians can get an extra 10%
discount!! Always thinking in business jaja...

I have a construction company as well and I am also involved in night clubs, restaurants and bars.

Since I left Princethorpe in 1990 I studied business and managment with tourism for four years and after that I took over the family business for the past 18 years.

I would love to arrange a special dinner in Madrid with all the Spanish old students,  Rafa, Santiago, Jaime, Juan Jose, Javier, Maximo etc There were up to 15 of us and we were called the Spanish Armada, I am still in contact with a few of them and Luther Keningel, who has been a very close friend since 1985.

For three years we won 3 the 5 a side football against all the school including the priests and the teachers.

Regards to all my old teachers, Mr Moroney, Mr Cooper, Fr Whelan, Mr Adams, Madame Mcbride, etc  and especially Father Sweeney, Fr O'Connor and Mrs Grant, the matron.

Alex was at Princethorpe from 1984 to 1986, her play "Draggin' it out" has won the Coventry Create award and will be produced by the Belgrade theatre in Coventry next July.

The play is a dark comedy about Ray, an agorophobic ex-drag queen who cares for his mother who has dementia, they both live vicariously through his sister (Anna) who has Down's Syndrome. Anna tries to get Ray to perform at a karaoke event  to break his fear of leaving his home. Family secrets unravel and the family are thrown into conflict.

The play was showcased at Birmingham Rep and received a commendation from the Judges of the Soho Theatre Verity Bargate Awards.

After finally recovering from post A-level result celebrations in The Woodhouse I managed to complete an English and Politics degree at Southampton University and then a Post Grad Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire.

After 17 years of study, the world of work could be avoided no longer and I became a reporter at the Press Association in London, covering all sorts of national and international stories including a stint a bit too close to the front line of the Kosovo War for my liking.

A move to ITV saw me dabble in Public Relations before I moved to Comic Relief as a writer. Almost eight years later I'm still there, now as Head of Creative and I've been lucky enough to see much of Africa and India in the process - including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009.

I'm married to Sarah and have 3 year old and three month old boys. The process of having said nippers inspired me to write a book aimed at giving men a fighting chance at supporting their pregnant partner rather than just being in the way. Pregnancy for Men was published in May and seems to be going down well enough for another book to be in the pipeline.

I've got Princethorpe to thank for almost all of the above - except from the conception of my children of course.