Mike Cowdrey is a retired chartered accountant. He lives in Nottingham, UK, with his wife, Ann, who he married in 1969, and with whom he has five children and twelve grandchildren. He is known as, Gubba, after one his grandchildren mispronounced โGrandadโ. He is a keen photographer, and is also a member of Mensa, having established an IQ of 161, which he never fails to tell everyone, is one higher than that achieved by Albert Einstein.