Roger Wildblood was born in 1926 and grew up in mid-Staffordshire. He was educated at Smallwood Manor and Denstone before finding his alma mater at Pembroke College, Oxford. His family were colour makers for the pottery industry.
Roger became a Chartered Accountant, married and had three children. Between school and university he went to India as a captain in the British Army, where he joined a training Battalion in Fatehgarh in north west India.
On his return to England, after university and qualifying as a chartered accountant, he worked in the family business and elsewhere. Then, later in life, he moved to Aberystwyth where he wrote Hartley's Horse in the 1980s, drawing much of the story from his own time in India. Roger then returned to Staffordshire, where he currently lives.