- 1983 Moved to Eynsham, Oxfordshire where he and his wife bought a pub and turned it into a restaurant named "Edward's" after their second son.
- 1974 With his wife opened and ran restaurant "Martha's Kitchen", named after their daughter, in Wallington, Oxfordshire.
- 3 children - Mark born 1964, Nicholas Edward, and Martha born 1970.
- He was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2005.
- Has a daughter, actress Martha Cope
- He wrote the Thames sitcom 'Thingumybob for Stanley Holloway in 1968.
- He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2000. Six years later this was confirmed as a misdiagnosis.
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