 Vic was born in Lincoln in 1940, but spent the first five years of his life in the London area where his father was a bomb disposal officer in the Royal Engineers. He returned to Lincoln after the war and was educated at the Lincoln School. He qualified as a teacher in 1961 and shortly afterwards went to teach in the British Army and Gurkha Children's School in Penang, Malaysia. Vic returned to England in 1967 and spent the rest of his career in the Lincoln area. He is now semi-retired but still does supply teaching locally. There are connections with the N.H.S. as Vic's wife is a Community Staff Nurse. They have been married for 27 years and have three children.
Musically Vic is a bit of a late developer. As a young man he played in a drum and bugle band, finishing as solo bugler. However, there was one cornet player in the band and Vic decided that one day he would learn to play that instrument. He finally got round to it at the age of sixty. He taught himself to read music and learned the cornet fingering. This was followed by a weekly lesson for a period of sixteen months. He joined the Lincolnshire Hospitals Band in January 2003.
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