ANDREW BOND is John Quilliam’s four times great nephew by marriage. After reading rowing and engineering at Cambridge and a brief interlude as a teacher, he spent 40 years as a technical journalist, writing for and editing a succession of engineering periodicals. Since retirement he has divided his time between researching John Quilliam’s career and, with his wife Marian, sailing their traditional Norfolk Broads river cruiser.
ANDREW LAMBERT, Laughton Professor of Naval History at King’s College, London, is, according to David Cannadine, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton, ‘The outstanding British naval historian of his generation’. He provided the political and strategic context to the detailed biographical research by Andrew Bond, a retired engineering journalist, while Frank Cowin, a prominent Manx antiquarian, dealt with Quilliam’s background and reputation on the Island.
