Ken was converted at St Clement’s Church at the age of thirteen and has been an active member ever since. He met his wife, Sonia, at the church youth club and they have been married since 1959, with two married daughters and three grandchildren.

He was church warden for nineteen years and became a Licensed Lay Minister in 1969.

He worked as a technician for the Oxford University Engineering Department and was head of a teaching workshop, retiring in July 2003.