Cedric Chivers was a student at Coal Hill School in 1963 and a friend of Susan Foreman. In October of that year, he protected her when Mavis attacked her. He had wild ideas about Susan's home. He took her on the London Underground, which she was amazed about. Colonel Rook was his uncle, and Cedric spied on Susan at his request. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth)
By 2013, he was teaching at Oxford, according to Alice Watson he had simply forgotten to retire. He helped to create a time machine. He knew that it worked as he was given himself the instructions from the future. The Eleventh Doctor's influence, by getting him and Susan to buy a Bob Dylan record, led to him to marry a girl that he met at a Dylan concert. The memory of his children and grandchildren stopped him from entering the time machine, allowing the Doctor to stop the Creevix. (AUDIO: The Time Machine)