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Tall, muscular and imposing, Harry bestrides the worlds of sport, academia and law like a super-heroic colossus. A university professor, top human rights and environmental legal expert, and a man whose sporting ability is dwarfed by his sheer doggedness, Harry is a role model to millions.

But it wasn't always thus. Hailing from the mean streets of Horton in the Cotswolds, life for young Harry was tough. Television hadn't yet reached rural England, let alone the ZX Spectrum, so Harry and his peers had to rely on conkers, kiss-chase and apple-scrumping for any entertainment.

But he battled through the privations of the Gloucestershire countryside in the early 1980s, did rather well at school, became world champion at rowing, and moved on to university where, as an undergraduate, he became a global authority in all aspects of Greek and Roman history and language (apart from all the bits which were "not his period"). He also met Mike, Jason, Don, Jim, Brendy, Ron and subsequently a load of other predsters, through a social life filled with pool, table-football, jazz and cigarettes.

Realising that the world needed putting to rights, Harry began work for a human rights practice in London in the 1990s. As a result, his love-life blossomed! Being at the vanguard in the fight for truth and justice made him utterly irresistible to the ladies of the capital's burgeoning club scene - although rumours that he was an extra in a risque legal arthouse film entitled 'Human Rights, Human Dongs' are apocryphal.

Admired by friends, respected and feared by rivals, Harry brings all aspects of his character to the Preds - unfortunately including an occasional tendency to forgetfulness.