Trevor John was born on 30 October 1942 at Victor House, Partlands Avenue, Ryde, Isle of Wight on to Basil TOMASIN and Dorothy BULL-WILLIAMS.
He was raised as a 'Corkhead', only emigrating from the 'Garden Isle' to find work after leaving Ryde Secondary Modern School - 'The Mudslingers' - in 1959 with a six 'O' levels.
He found employment with the Air Ministry - later Ministry of Defence (Air) - in Whitehall, London as an established Clerical Officer purchasing radio and radar spares for the RAF.
He married Mary Kathleen PRICE on 30 January 1965 at St Simon & St Jude, Streatham, London. They had two children between 1967 and 1969.
In 1966 he transferred from the Ministry of Defence(Air) to HM Customs & Excise as an Assistant Preventive Officer where he worked in London Port (Harpy - 1966), at London's Heathrow Airport (1966), Exeter Airport (1972) and Avonmouth 1978) rummaging both ships and aircraft, and searching passengers baggage and examining cargo. Settled in Clevedon, Somerset, and promoted to Senior Officer (1983), he managed Bristol & South West England Collection's Accounts.
His marriage ended in divorce on 1 October 1985 at Bristol County Court, Greyfriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol.
He married Valerie Joan MARTIN on 14 December 1985 at the Register Office, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Still at Avonmouth, he managed the EPU - responsible for the import and export of cargo - as well as introducing computerised Accounting and Entry processing to the Avonmouth cargo community.
On further promotion to Surveyor - SEO (1992) - Trevor was transferred to HMC&E's London HQ at New King's Beam House as a Senior Consultant with the departments 'in house' management consultancy service RAMCS (MCS) - specialising in the design and implementation of management information systems (MIS). He then transferred back to Bristol (1994) and managed the VAT Debt Management and LVOIT units at Bristol LVO whilst undertaking various Consultancy tasks for the Collector South West England.
Trevor took 'early retirement' from HMC&E in 1995 having had enough of the constant change - mainly due to Prime Minister Thatcher's policies which decimated the UK Civil Service, and the effects of the UK's entry into the European Union and the associated, gradual transfer of sovereignty and administrative power to Brussels which effectively decimated HMC&E! After a year's 'rest' he began to supplement his meager Civil Service pension by working as a freelance courier. Then, driving a black van full time, delivering paint for Trimite around the South of England . . . . until suffering a stroke in 2005!
He began playing 'league' skittles for the Exeter Airport team in the 1970's. He joined the Stragglers skittles team when he moved to Clevedon in 1978 and continued playing for them until his balance became a problem in 2009.
He organised and ran Clevedon Jazz Club and Clevedon's Annual Jazz Festival - The Long Weekend - as a hobby, first with Bob Murley & Jim White, then with Bill Griffiths and the help of both wives, until 2006.
His time is now spent maintaining three web sites hm-waterguard.org.uk, tomasin.org.uk/piers and tomasin.org.uk/stragglers, and researching his Family History, reading, entertaining his three grandchildren, and very occasionally (!) testing the local beers for alcoholic content . . . . .
tjt - 18 May 2009
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