Trevor was born in Selby, Yorkshire on 20 September 1937. He was named after a cricketer (Trevor Jones of Somerset - the name was chosen by his half brother Ray, who knew Trevor) and so began one of Trevor’s long lasting loves - Yorkshire Cricket Club

Trevor never forgot his Yorshire roots although he left the county with his family when he was 2 years old, and never returned to live there.

Trevor’s father (Herbert) was a Methodist minister and the family moved regularly. In 1939, the family moved to Ashford, Kent. However, with the Battle of Britain over the Kent skies, Trevor and his older sister Pam (1935-2012) were evacuated to family in Cheltenham. It wasn’t long later though that Herbert’s work took the family to the quieter Fens region and Trevor and Pam were reunited with their parents as well as their maternal Grandmother and Auntie Dorothy.
After happy childhood years in March and Attleborough, the family moved once more, in 1947, to Burnley, Lancashire. Here began another love that lasted the rest of Trevor’s life: Burnley Football Club. Pam and Trevor were given season tickets to Turf Moor by a kind gentleman at their father’s Methodist chapel. From that moment on Burnley’s winding fortunes brought moments of joy and sadness over the remaining 73 years of Trevor’s life.

Trevor was himself a keen footballer and, despite his diminiutive size, was a reasonable goalkeeper, going on to play at Turf Moor himself for Burnley Schoolboys.

After his father’s time in the Burnley Methodist circuit ended, the family moved again this time to Northwich in Cheshire. Trevor completed his A Levels at the local grammar school, still trying to see Burnley games when he could. He and a friend would try to hitch lifts north in order to reach the ground. That didn’t always work and they’d have to make do with watching Bury FC instead.

In 1956 Trevor started at the University of Manchester where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He lived in a Methodist guesthouse during his time and attended chapel regularly. He also liked to watch Manchester United and it was during his time at university that the Munich Air crash happened. Man Utd was Trevor’s second club from then on.

By the time he graduated from university, Trevor’s parents (and Auntie Dorothy) had moved to Leighton Buzzard’s for what was his father’s last position in the Methodist circuit before retirement.
Trevor moved to Leighton Buzzard with plans to begin his training in the probation service. However, this was delayed by the fact he was called up to do National Service. The idea of being in the armed services went against his pacifist views. Despite his protestations his call up was confirmed and Trevor became one of the last cohorts of young men to be called up. In 1959 he became a member of the Northamptonshire army regiment, spending a year in the UK before transferring to the British protectorate of Aden, the Yemen. His experiences in the army confirmed his pacifist views.