Alan Harvey Alan Harvey is a British far-right activist originally active in the National Front and later its splinter group, the National Party .

Early life

Alan David Harvey was born on 6th November 1948 at Chatham, Kent, into a working-class family with strong Royal Navy traditions. Intriguingly he was baptised by the Rev. W.J. Paradine Frost, the father of Sir David Frost. He was educated initially at Byron Road Primary School, Gillingham, where he was greatly influenced by his senior form master, Hugh MacLeod, and by the house structure of the school which featured the leading countries of the British Commonwealth: Canada (Harvey's house), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. During this time he was instrumental in establishing the SSC (a sports club run by the boys themselves), and was appointed one of the club's five "officers". He completed his education at Gillingham Grammar School, but left school far too early with no form of careers guidance.

Southern Africa

He then drifted through the British civil service and various computer programming jobs before making his first trip to South Africa and Rhodesia in 1974 in order to follow Willie John McBride's British Lions rugby tour around the sub-continent. After this the "travel bug" really bit him, and he emigrated to South Africa two years later. During the following 14 years he travelled extensively throughout Southern Africa, and became active in several sporting and political organisations. He was Durban Branch Organiser of the Save Rhodesia Campaign from 1977 to 1979, edited the magazine S.A.Patriot (which he still publishes to this day in the form of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile), became "State President" of the influential Durban Parliamentary Debating Society, and founded the Durban Branch of the Rangers F.C. Supporters Association. He was also instrumental in the foundation of the Durban-based Patriotic Forum, which attracted many leading conservative politicians as guest speakers.

Return To The UK

He was alas an early victim of affirmative action, and through the lack of any full-time employment opportunities was forced to leave South Africa in 1990 and to re-settle back in the United Kingdom. His experiences in Southern Africa made him a strong "Empire Man" however, which is confirmed by his activities since returning to the UK. He founded the East Kent Branch (now the Kent Branch) of Rhodesians Worldwide and was a co-founder of the Springbok Club, and is still an active member of both organisations (being presently organiser/secretary of the Springbok Club and the affiliated Empire Loyalist Club). He is also currently the Chairman of the influential London Swinton Circle. He has continued his Imperial travels since returning to the UK, visiting Hong Kong in February 1997 (an experience which he believes had more impact upon him than his 14 years in South Africa), and is now a regular visitor to and active supporter of Gibraltar.

Personal life

He is a widower with a twenty-one-year-old daughter, and runs his own highly successful genealogical research business (being a qualified Record Agent with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.) An article by him entitled "One Man's Africa" was published in the book "Africa Par Adventure" in 2002. He is a cricket and rugby fanatic, and also an incurable animal lover.

Sources

Patriotic Forum web-site - http://www.patrioticforum.co.uk

Africa Par Adventure - ISBN: 1-4033-4964-9