Author: Peter Burton

Peter Burton is part of the BajanThings crew. He is a co-editor of BajanThings with his cousin William Burton. Peter and William started BajanThings in December 2014 with the aim of building a website that focused on William’s three loves: preserving handed down Bajan history, hiking and international travel.Peter maintains the BajanThings website and writes the occasional BajanThings post.Peter was born in Trinidad to Bajan parents. Peter’s father, Jim Burton, worked in the oil industry, so as a child Peter grew up as a “third culture kid” in Trinidad, Barbados, England, Nigeria, Iran and Malta. He left Trinidad in 1970 aged 11 and went as a boarder to the Lodge School in Barbados. In 1971 he went to boarding school in England when his parents left Trinidad. His father retired to England in 1982. As an adult Peter has lived in England, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. After 20+ years in Asia, spent mainly in Hong Kong, in 2014 Peter returned to England and now lives in Surrey with his family.Peter trained as an engineer. In his early career he worked as a management consultant. Since 1998 he has worked in the field of advertising technology and programmatic advertising. He has recently retired and works on a number of family and friends web related projects.