Home page Reviewed book author The Briton's Quest for Freedom - Our unfinished journey ... The author - Hector Wetherell McNeill Hector McNeill was born in Portsmouth in 1944 and was educated at Friend's School, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, Portsmouth Southern Grammar School, Hampshire and Clare College Cambridge where he read agriculture and post graduate political economy. He also completed post-graduate studies at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, in international development economics and systems engineering. He is director of the Systems Engineering Economics Laboratory and holds voluntary positions in nongovernmental organizations concerned with minority and mainstream emancipation. He is married to Maria Elisabeth and they have a daughter. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of British political life including the general public, human rights advocates, scholars, students of political science, British politics, constitutional law, political history, religion, morals & ethics as well as politicians and political journalists.