Tim Slessor

Early life and education Tim Slessor was born in England in 1931. His father was an officer in the Royal Navy's Air Arm; consequently Tim spent most of his pre-war boyhood in Malta, the then home base of the RN's Mediterranean fleet. But in June 1940, when his father (along with over 1,500 others) was lost in the sinking of the carrier, HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers, his mother took him back to her home country of Australia. In late 1945, with the War over, he and his mother eventually returned to the United Kingdom. He attended Cambridge University in 1952, and graduated in 1955 with a degree in Geography. ==Bibliography==