Patrick G. Cox

Author Biography.
Patrick G. Cox spent thirty plus years in the Fire Service in South Africa and later in the UK. Born in Cape Town in 1946 and educated at the Selborne Primary and College in East London (the one in South Africa, not the slightly less well known one on the Thames), he has had a lifelong interest in the sea, ships and history. He draws his inspiration from the people and sometimes the events he has encountered in his career.
He began writing in the fire service, authoring technical notes, study materials and training notes. A contributor to a number of fire service publications, he was eventually contracted to write three books for the Institution of Fire Engineers in the United Kingdom. These are:
Marine Fire Studies (1997)
A Guide to Fire Investigation (2006)
Fire Service Leader’s Pocket Book (2016)
After an 18 year career in the Fire and Emergency Service in South Africa during which he reached senior rank, he moved his family to London as a fire safety consultant, and as a Statutory Examiner (Fire) for Lloyds Register of Shipping from where he was recruited to take up a post at the UK Fire Service College as a uniformed instructor, a post from which he retired in 2006. 
In parallel with his full-time career he was a Licenced Reader in the Church of England, authorised to teach, take non-Eucharistic services and preach. 
He has three children from his first marriage, all now adult, and three grandchildren all living in the London environs. He now lives in Germany.
Writing is his hobby, and he now focuses on fiction, with eight books of science fiction and four in the historic genre, with another under ‘construction’.