page_title: Julian Stockwin
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Julian Stockwin / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Personal photo of Julian Stockwin
context_page_description: Julian Stockwin is an author of historical action-adventure fiction. As well as the Kydd Series he has written two standalone novels The Silk Tree and The Powder of Death.
context_section_description: Born in 1944, Stockwin soon developed a love for the sea, having an uncle, Tom Clay, who was a seaman in square-rigged ships and had sailed around Cape Horn in the Cutty Sark.
  After grammar school, his father sent him to sea-training school at Indefatigable at age 14. He joined the Royal Navy at 15 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy when his family emigrated. Stockwin served eight years, and was eventually rated petty officer.
  Stockwin attended the University of Tasmania to read Far Eastern studies and psychology. He did post-graduate work in cross-cultural psychology. He got involved in the manufacture and design of computers and software development. Returning to the navy and the Royal Navy Reserve, Stockwin was honoured with an MBE and retired as lieutenant commander.
  He returned to the United Kingdom in 1990 and started to write in 1996. He currently resides in Ivybridge, Devon.
caption: Julian in front of HMS Victory
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