I live with my wife Suzie on Ballagarraghyn Farm, St. Johns. I am currently Chief Executive of a Manx-based investment company with a UK subsidiary.

We have four children aged between 24 and nearly 30. Clair, the eldest daughter, recently graduated from university in Brisbane and is now hoping to pursue a career as a lawyer. Sarah also lives in Australia with her husband Carl. Tabitha lives in the UK, is married to Ross and they now have a young daughter, Megan. Barnaby works and lives in the UK.

As a family we feel privileged inasmuch as three of our parents (grandparents of the children) are still alive in their 80s, providing a valuable rock and occasional reality check for the whole family.

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Geoffrey's Life

I was born in 1953 and attended a number of schools in the UK following my father’s career moves. I left school with some 16 GCEs (as they were in those days). My further education was cut short when a passionate interest in motorcycles/motorcycle racing resulted in a serious accident and several months of hospitalisation, recuperation and three months of being unable to walk.

At college my intended career option was bio-chemistry and physics but the unfortunate accident resulted in a complete career change, with the first few years of my working life spent with the then Midland Bank.

This proved an excellent insight into the world of finance and a sound footing for moving into surveying, auctioneering and estate agency work, where I became a partner for one of the larger firms of estate agents and surveyors in the UK.

Parallel to this I was developing farming interests and operated a substantial soft fruit farm with later diversification into holiday, leisure and golf course development. A company sale in the 1980s enabled an even broader diversification of career into several parallel strands, which still included farming and leisure but now included aviation, property investment and development and a burning passion for politics.

As Chief Executive of a Manx-based company I moved to the Island permanently in the late 1980s.

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