The following is the entry that appeared in the 2001 edition of the biographical dictionary Who’s Who. My father died the following year.
CAMP, William Newton Alexander; writer and political and corporate adviser, retired; b 12 May 1926; s of I. N. Camp, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Palestine, and Freda Camp; m 1st, 1950, Patricia Cowan (marr. diss. 1973); two s one d; 2nd, 1975, Juliet Schubart, d of late Hans Schubart; four step s. Educ. Bradfield Coll.; Oriel Coll, Oxford (Classical Scholar, MA). Served in Army, 1944-47, Asst Res Officer, British Travel and Holidays Assoc, 1950-54; Asst Sec., Consumer Adv, Council, BSI, 1954-59; Asst Sec., Gas Council, 1960-63; Public Relations Adviser, Gas Council (British Gas Corp.), 1963-67; Dir. of Information Services, British Steel Corp., 1967-71; Mem., British Nat. Oil Corp., 1976-78; Special Adviser, milling and baking industries, 1972-90; British Leyland Motor Corp., 1975; railway trades unions 1975-76; C. A. Parsons & Co Ltd., 1976-77; Prudential Corp. (formerly Prudential Assurance Co.), 1978-88; Northern Engineering Industries plc, 1978-84; Corporate Adviser British Railways Bd., 1977-90; Director, Quartet Books, 1973-76; Westminster Communications GP. Ltd, 1989-90; Chm., Camden Consultants Ltd, 1975-91; Mem. Exec. Cttee, Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign, 1999-; Trustee, Transport 2000, 1997- ; Mem. Cttee, Foundn for Al-Quds Med Sch., Jerusalem, 1997- ; Chm. Oxford Univ. Labour Club 1949; contested (Lab) Solihull; Mem. Southwark Borough Council 1953-56; Press Adviser (unpaid) to Prime Minister, Gen. Election 1970; Founder Mem., Public Enterprise Group. Publications: novels: Prospects of Love, 1957; Idle on Parade, 1958 (filmed 1959); The Ruling Passion, 1959; A Man’s World (1963); Two Schools of Thought, 1964; Flavour of Decay, 1967; The Father Figures, 1970; Stroke Counterstroke, 1986; biography: The Glittering Prizes (F. E. Smith). Address: Gloucester Crescent, NW1, and Marshfield, near Chippenham, Wilts. Clubs: Garrick, Beefsteak.
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