Born in 1947, on a farm in the White Highlands of Kenya, Roger attended school in Bournemouth, UK, and St David's College in South Africa. He started on the mines near Johannesburg when he was nineteen years old. He has worked on gold, platinum and copper mines all over the world. Roger married in 1968 and is the father of four children by his first wife, Sharon. She died of cancer in 1993. He has since remarried and lives with his wife, Cynthia and their young son Gordon, on a forty-foot boat near St Ives in Cambridgeshire.
