Anthony was born in Glasgow, where his father was an architect and his mother taught piano. He was educated at the famous Loretto School in Musselburgh, which includes the great Jim Clark amongst its former pupils. Anthony has two brothers, one is a furniture designer, and the other competes in the well known ‘Robot Wars’ TV programme.

The first vehicle Anthony drove was when he was 11-years-old, and it was a 30 tonne earth moving vehicle, a far cry from what he drives now! It was at a quarry near where his parents were living, and when he found that he could start up the earth movers, he couldn’t resist it…

In some ways racing was in Anthony's blood and it seemed natural that he should become a racing driver. A close friend of his family raced in Formula Two against Jackie Stewart, also doing a whole host of events including the London-Sydney rally, and was a real inspiration to him. With Jim Clark the most famous ‘old boy’ of his school, perhaps it was always going to happen.

Anthony's first racing car was a Formula Ford, a Nike Mk.10B that he bought in 1976, and a year later he was racing for the first time, at the famous Jim Russell Racing Drivers School where he took his first victory in their Scholarship competition.

Anthony moved south to Oxford where he lives with his wife Tina, and away from the track he enjoys both water and snow skiing, playing golf, and travelling. After his time racing there his favourite food is Japanese, though he also enjoys malt whiskey and good vintage champagne!

In 1999 Anthony became patron of the 'Racing for Children' charity.