He was s of Lt-Col Malcolm Hugh Dees MCALPINE 1917-2012 (gs of Sir Robert MCALPINE 1st Bt 1847-1934) and Sheila Margaret 1919-2006 d of Maj F Raeburn PRICE of Fordyce, N.Foreland, Kent. He m 1983 Angela Mary 1951-2022 d of George Charles HICKIE 1917-85 scion of that Irish gentry family and Elizabeth Frances 1924-2014 d of Cdr Herbert Stanley Wentworth CRIST RN, and had a son and two daus as above.