Ian McCaskill

McCaskill attended Queen's Park Secondary in Glasgow, and then the University of Glasgow, where he studied geology and chemistry. ==Career==

McCaskill joined the RAF in 1959 as part of his National Service and became an airman meteorologist, first in Scotland and then in Cyprus. McCaskill worked as a motivational speaker, and appeared on the BBC Television shows MasterChef and on Have I Got News for You, as well as in a number of TV advertisements. He also participated in the first series of Celebrity Fit Club in 2002. In 2006, he co-wrote the book Frozen in Time, about Britain's worst ever winters, with Paul Hudson. ==Personal life and death==

McCaskill lived at Seer Green, near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. He had two daughters with his first wife Lesley Charlesworth, to whom he was married from 1959 until her death from breast cancer in 1992. In 1998, he married Pat Cromack, becoming stepfather to her two sons. McCaskill was a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. In May 2000, he opened the first phase of the £1.2 million Lower Leas Coastal Park in Folkestone. McCaskill was diagnosed with dementia in 2011 and died, in a nursing home in South Milford, on 10 December 2016, aged 78. ==Books==