 At age 16 he spent the summer attending the Nuremberg trials at which his father was officiating, the family diaries and memoires of which are now on permanent loan to the NCCL Galleries of Justice in Nottingham.After Eton, he undertook National Service at Catterick and was commissioned as second lieutenant with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers.He then went up to New College, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.