Chris King, Quantity Surveyor

Born in Ealing, Chris was educated at Ealing Grammar School, then qualified as a quantity surveyor on a course at Hammersmith School of Building, Arts and Crafts. Called up for national service, he took officer training in Airfield Construction, on the Isle of Man. Next he was posted to Abingdon (not the Far East as he requested!), where he spent two years looking after contracts over a wide area. He then joined the Air Ministry Works Department and almost immediately got an overseas posting to Aden and the Persian Gulf for two years. Returning to work at Abingdon again, he met& married his wife in Ealing, and their next posting was to Gibraltar. On promotion he was sent to Hong King but only for a year and then worked in London in the Directorate of Building Management, then Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. After a few years of commuting, with the prospect of any more overseas postings diminishing, Chris responded to an advert for a quantity surveyor post at Milton Keynes Development Corporation.