Roy and Pat Coxhead pictured at Diana Thompson's wedding Coxhead's father was in the army, and as a result he was born in Quetta Cantonment, Balochistan, Pakistan. He went on to be educated in the UK and started his career on local newspapers, followed by a stint in Australia during his early married life. He later returned to the UK overland with his wife Pat in a VW. His career included communications roles for Reed International and then the British Printing Company where he worked for ten years, departing just prior to the Robert Maxwell era. He then joined Benn Publications where he was editor of