In his younger days, he'd served in the army.(PROSE: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks) He went on to spend twenty years in the Foreign Office and then work for the United Nations. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) In the 1970s, during a global crisis sparked in the Middle East (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks), Styles arranged the second World Peace Conference at his home of Auderly House. He was famously was one of the few diplomats the Chinese trusted at the time. (TV: Day of the Daleks)