Both him and his wife are second generation Brits, both their parents originally from India. Not content with their British passports, Mrs gnome made four visits to the US for extended stays, each one resulting in a return home +1. Obviously, a UK only passport is not good enough for their little darlings.
The first (and last) time that I met his wife, she admitted she thought she needed a passport to visit Scotland. She lived in Watford at the time! And no, that's not a joke.
He himself is a conniving, devious and downright untrustworthy individual with the ethics of a sleaze bag. He's a small man with a severely over inflated ego and made the life of one of my colleagues very difficult, as he did for several of our pilots. The 'C' word sums up perfectly this despicable little individual.
Harry