User:RichardPaulKahn

Richard Kahn is the son of Sam Kahn, Communist Member of Parlaiment, Capetown, who was a South African member of Parliament in the 1950's. He was born on 4th September 1954 in Capetown, South Africa to Sam Kahn LLB, and Pauline Althea Kahn, MD, near the Spotty Dog Cafe in Capetown. He spent the first five years of his life in Newlands, Capetown before emigrating to England in December 1959 on the Windsor Castle with his mother and two brothers, Barry Joseph Kahn and Gregory Robin Kahn. He settled in Finchley, North London and lived there until 1974 when he went up to study Mathematics and Experimental Psychology at Sussex University in Falmer, Brighton for 3 years graduating with an Honours Degree in 1977. He spent the next 25 years in Computers doing Computer Programming and Database Design in a number a Computer Languages such as COBOL, SPEEDWARE, BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, UNIFACE, COLD FUSION 10, JAVASCRIPT, HTML 4.2 using databases such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008, TimesTen and Microsoft Access 2002, mainly on the HP3000 Mini Computer and Microsoft based systems.

Richard attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for boys in Elstree, Hertfordshire from 1965-1973 where he took A Levels in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and English and Davies' crammer in Holborn, London from 1973-1974 where he studied Pure Mathematics and Statistics getting an A for Statistics and a C in Pure Mathematics.

In 1965 he landed a signing part in Benjamin Britten's Noyes Flood performed only once at Christmas in St. Pancras Church in London, England. He went on to give a run of performances in Julius Caesar Jones, the children's musical, at the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, Holborn, London; the first performance was delivered on 4th January, 1966.

After obtaining and Honours Degree in Mathematics and Experimental Psychology at Sussex University (1974-1977), he worked for a number of high profile Blue Chip Corporations such as Unilever, Royal Dutch Shell, Amoco, Warner Brothers, Amersham International and Royal Bank of Scotland as a Computer Analyst and Programmer in fields as diverse as Finance, Film, Stock Control, Accounting, Sales and Manufacturing.

Currently residing in Suffolk, England, he composes and plays blues, jazz and pop music on a Musical Workstation at home. He has one son, Oliver Julian Louis and an ex-partner called Lynn Hunter.