David Cregan

David Appleton Quartus Cregan was born in Buxton, Derbyshire on 30 September 1931 to factory owner James and his wife Gertrude - the youngest of four sons, hence the name Quartus. Having displayed an early talent for writing whilst at school he spent two years in the RAF (1952 - 1954) on National Service before going to Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights Review. On graduation he worked as a teacher but throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties wrote a number of plays for the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Royal at Stratford East in addition to several television works. He carried on writing despite the onset of Parkinson's disease and died on September 7 2015, leaving behind a wife, Ailsa, four children and six grandchildren.