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PERSONAL LIFE Bishop's family have a long military, industrial, and political history. His paternal side have a history in the mining and construction industries, with his father being involved in many regeneration projects in South Wales and his grandfather serving underground for five decades. His maternal side have a history in the military, where is grandfather served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and he is also related to the famous Llantrisant Archer s that fought at the Battle of Crecy in 1346 . Bishop espouses further connections with Llantrisant as he is also maternally related to the late Ivor Jacob , who was Chairman of Llantrisant Town Council in 1947 . EDUCATION Bishop graduated from the University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 1998 and went on to gain his first degree in Multimedia Studies in 2002 at the University Of Glamorgan in Pontypridd. He later went on to undertake masters degrees at the same university, gaining an MSc in E-learning in 2004 and an LLM in European Union Law in 2007 . PROFESSIONAL CAREER Bishop joined for people with forms of Autism like Asperger Syndrome , which enables them to take part in social situations that they usually find difficult or confusing and while at Brodway Studios in 2003 he developed a number of e-learning systems and online communities, which resulted in new methodologies for designing such systems being presented by him to the International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications. In 2006 Bishop co-founded e-learning firm, Glamorgan Blended Learning, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (no. 06328406), where a number of his technologies are now being used for the benefit of people in the South Wales Central region. POLITICAL CAREER In for his technological and political activities, as well as on an international level in the Washington Post and Bejing Review. LAWSUITS Bishop was the subject of a lawsuit brought by his parents against Mid Glamorgan Education Authority, which led to the Welsh Office ordering the authority to support his parents' choice of school in 1993 . In 2006 Bishop brought a civil action against a prominent local politician who he claimed was invading his private life. In the wake of a High Court ruling in a similar case brought by Elton John , Bishop's case was dismissed, though proved that suggestions of Bishop making a deal with another politician were invalid. PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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