Oxfordshire Lieutenancy

Tim Stevenson / Mr Tim Stevenson OBE - Lord Lieutenant
Appointed 1 September 2008. He has an MA in Jurisprudence from Worcester College Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1971 and is a member of the InnerTemple. He received the OBE in 2004. Chief Executive of Castrol International 1993-1998; Chief Executive of Burmah Castrol PLC 1998-2000. Chairman, Morgan Crucible PLC and Travis Perkins PLC. Chair of Governors of Oxford Brookes University 2004-2008. Member of Council at Modern Art Oxford 1998-2004. Interests: hill walking, music and reading.
John Harwood / Mr John Harwood DL - Vice Lord Lieutenant
Chairman of CfBT Education Trust. Until 2008 he was chief executive of the UK's Food Standards Agency. Previously he had served as chief executive of the national Learning and Skills Council and before that as chief executive of Oxfordshire County Council. He is also chairman of the Northmoor Trust, a trustee of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History Trust, a governor of the MarlboroughSchool in Woodstock, and a member of the advisory council of the Oxford Trust. Nationally, he is a board member of the Care Quality Commission.
William Alden / Mr William Alden MBE DL
Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. Chairman of the Trustees of Emmaus Oxford; Patron of the Soldiers for Oxfordshire (SOFO) Appeal; Member, Court of Oxford Brookes University; Member, Industry Advisory Panel of Oxford Brookes University. Formerly Chairman and Managing Director of the Alden Press.
David Astor / Mr David Astor CBE DL
Farmer. Trustee of Elizabeth Finn Care. National chairman, Council for the Protection of Rural England 1983-93. Previously chairman, Southern Arts and The Theatre, Chipping Norton. A patron of the MulberryBushSchool. Co-founder of Jupiter Asset Management and also Co-founder of Classic FM. Trustee of Oxfordshire Community Foundation.
Diana Bagnall / Mrs Diana Bagnall JP DL
Magistrate and Governor of BucklandSchool. Also Trustee of Buckland Memorial Hall. Previously Chair of the Northern Oxfordshire Bench and Chair of the County Family Panel of the three Oxfordshire Benches.Chair of Governors, St Peter's School, Alvescot; Chair ofBampton & Burford Red Cross Centre; member of Alvescot Parochial Church Council;member ofthe governing council of St Luke's Nursing Home, member of the Radcliffe Medical Foundation.
Helen Baker / Mrs Helen Baker DL
Trained as a social worker. Career in health and social care, housing and education in the voluntary and public sectors. Chaired two NHS trusts in Oxfordshire before becoming chair of Advance, a national charity providing housing, social care and employment support to adults with learning disability and mental health problems in Sept 2006. Previously a member, General Social Care Council; current member of Governing Council, National College for Schools’ and Children’s Leadership; and Deputy Commissioner, Commission for the Compact. Founder/Director of CharityWorks a collaborative initiative between a group of national charities and Patron of Oxfordshire Carers’ Forum.
Robin Birch / Mr Robin Birch CB DL
Civil Servant in Whitehall 1961-1995; served in Dept of Health, Home Office, Privy Council Office, National Audit Office; final post Deputy Secretary, Department of Social Security. CB 1995. Took early retirement to live a more useful life serving Oxfordshire. Honorary Secretary, Friends of ChristChurch Cathedral 1978-2006. Set up Oxfordshire Community Foundation 1995. Chairman of: Response Organisation (formerly Oxfordshire Group Homes, a mental health residential charity) since 1995; City of Oxford Charity since 2004; Oxford Credit Union 2005-2010; Glebe and Buildings Committee, Diocese of Oxford, 2009-. Joint Patron, Oxfordshire Association for the Blind, 2010 –.
Paul Bradstock / Mr Paul Bradstock OBE DL
Formerly Chief Executive and now a trustee of The Oxford Trust/ Science Oxford. He maintains a keen interest in enterprise and innovation in Oxfordshire’s science based economy. Chairs the Oxfordshire Independent and State Schools Partnership. Other non-executive board appointments include Portsmouth Technopole and the Northern IrelandSciencePark.
John Bridgeman / Colonel John Bridgeman CBE TD DL
Deputy Chairman of British Waterways and Chairman of BW Wales Advisory Board, Independent Regulatory Director of British Horseracing Authority, Chairman of Audit and Standards Committees of Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Police Authority, Honorary Colonel, 5, Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars, Squadron of 31 Signal Regiment, Chairman of the Board of the Banbury Sunshine Centre. Formerly a CEO of British Alcan Aluminium plc, a Director General of Fair Trading and a High Sheriff of Oxfordshire (1995).
Peter Bridges / Mr Peter Bridges MBE JP DL
A magistrate whoalso served as chairman of the Oxford Bench.President of TRAX, The Oxfordshire Motor Project Ltd; and a vice-president of Wolvercote Young Peoples Club.Has been associated with North Oxford Youth Theatre for many years. Chairman,OxfordUniversity Rugby Football Club; and Lay Chairman of the Oxford Deanery.
Robert Buckeldee / Mr Robert Buckeldee DL
Businessman, The Nielsen Company. Chairman of Oxfordshire CountyScout Council. Trustee of edukid, a charity aimed at helping young people in Cambodia and Uganda into education. Previous member of Kidlington with Hampton Poyle Parochial Church Council. Member, organising committee for Kidlington Fair Trade Fair.
Robin Buxton / Dr Robin Buxton MBE DL
Ecologist and wildlife conservationist. Trustee and former Chair of the Northmoor Trust and Chair of Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum. He has served as a trustee/director of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment. Fellow (currently Vice-president) of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv.). Now working on a new charity for long-term ecological research. Vice-Chair of Oxfordshire Environment and Waste Partnership.
Tom Camoys / Lord Camoys GCVO PC DL
Retired banker. Owner of famous Roman Catholic country house at Stonor. Permanent Lord-in-Waiting to The Queen. Steward, Henley Royal Regatta; President, River and RowingMuseum, Henley; and Vice-President, Henley Society (civic society).
Ann Campbell / Her Honour Ann Campbell DL
A retired solicitor who practised for many years in Oxford as a family lawyer. Most recently a Circuit Judge sitting in the Reading Crown and County Courts. Formerly a Trustee of Oxfordshire Family Mediation and Oxfordshire Relate. A past Governor and Chair of Governors of Oxford High School (incorporating GreycotesSchool and the SquirrelSchool). Currently a Trustee of Oxford Preservation Trust and a Trustee of the Blaschko ResearchScholarship (Department of Pharmacology : University of Oxford). Member of the Court of Oxford Brookes University. Patron of Oxfordshire Relate.
Malcolm Cochrane / Mr Malcolm Cochrane DL
Served in the Scots Guards for National Service. Attended Balliol College Oxford and spent a semester at Harvard studying Fine Art. Secretary of British Railways Board Design Panel. Local manufacturer. High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1996; Vice Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire 1999-2007. Trustee of The Marriott Trust. Chairman of the Oxfordshire Army Cadet Force League.President of the Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association (OPFA).
Felicity Dick / Mrs Felicity Dick DL
Holds a number of voluntary posts and charity trusteeships, concentrating mainly on youth charities. She is a Trustee of the Oxfordshire Children and Families Trust, an Ambassador of Parents and Children Together (PACT) having been the Manager of a Pact Family Centre and was joint founder of OX13 (a community youth group). She is a Trustee of the Speedwell and WellBeing Trust which supports healthier living, and a volunteer with the Stroke Association Dysphasic Support Group. She is also co-founder and Director of Appleton Community Shop.
Frances Dominica / Sister Frances Dominica OBE DL
Sister of the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor. Founder and a trustee of Helen House, the world's first children's hospice, and of Douglas House, a 'respice' for young adults.
Tish Francis / Ms Tish Francis DL
Director of Oxford Playhouse from 1989-2008, now joint director of The Story Museum, and running her own independent production company TFA Ltd.. She was chair and executive producer of Oxfordshire 2000, the organisation responsible for Oxfordshire’s Own Millennium Festival, OOMF! and the 2002 Oxford Open City Festival celebrating the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. She is a trustee of Oxford Inspires, Oxfordshire's cultural development agency and of The Rose Theatre, Kingston.In 2008 Tish was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by OxfordBrookesUniversity for her services to theatre and the arts.
Monawar Hussain / Imam Monawar Hussain DL
Local businessman. He is the Imam at EtonCollege.He is also the founder of The Oxford Foundation that seeks to support vulnerable, disaffected and low achieving young people through innovative educational programmes. He devised, pioneered and successfully piloted a unique educational programme confronting violent extremist ideology, aspects of which have been published and the programme has also been utilised to train RE teachers in the UK. He also sits on a number of advisory boards including the Department for Communities & Local Government Review of Muslim Faith Leader Training; the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education and the Religious Education Council Resilience Advisory Board. He is committed to interfaith dialogue between the world's faiths, serving on the advisory and consultative board of The Three Faiths’ Forum and in late 2009 Chairing a meeting of Ambassadors' at St James's Palace to seek ways of expanding this work internationally.
Philip Hutchinson / Professor Philip Hutchinson DL FREng
Physicist and engineer. Formerly Principal of the DefenceCollege of Management and Technology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at CranfieldUniversity.Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.Chairman of Letcombe Technology Ltd
Ian Inshaw / Brigadier Ian Inshaw DL
A former Army Officer who served his last five years of service as the Garrison Commander of Bicester Garison. He then became the Chairman of the Oxfordshire Ambulance Trust and the North East Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust as well as Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal for Oxfordshire.Since his semi retirement he has become involved with Age UK and is Chairman of P3ECO (Bicester) a company designed to facilitate the ECO Development in NE Bicester. He had the honour of being High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 2008/9. He is married to Isobel and has two married daughters and two grand-daughters. His hobbies are DIY, Family History, Sport and the Countryside.
Anne Kelaart / Mrs Anne Kelaart DL
Farmer and Landowner. She is Chairman of the Oxfordshire Rural Forum and of the Friends of Dorchester Abbey; President of Oxfordshire CLA; a Trustee of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History, the Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum and the Northmoor Trust; a Governor of Ripon College Cuddesdon and a Rural Officer in the Oxford Diocese. Nationally she was Chairman of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group until November 2008.
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 2004.
Ian Laing / Mr Ian Laing CBE DL
Local company director. High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 2005. He is a Governor, Royal Shakespeare Company and a Nuffield Medical Trustee.
Michael Macfadyen / Mr Michael Macfadyen DL
He is a retiredsolicitor. He is trustee of several grant giving charitable trusts; Chairman of Goring Heath Almshouses Trust; Chairman of the Marlborough Mound Turst; a trustee of the Oxfordshire VCH Trust and a trustee of the Top Foundation.
Miranda Markham / Mrs Miranda Markham DL
Group Community Relations Manager for Value Retail (BicesterVillage).She is a governor at BicesterCommunity College and vice chairman of the Bicester Chamber of Commerce. She is currently a steering group member for Oxfordshire Partnership and has been a stakeholder partner for Vision for Bicester since 2007.
David Mason / Mr David Mason DL
Landowner, farmer and author of two novels, having previously served for nine years as an officer in the Welsh Guards and Special Forces. He was a District Commissioner for the Oxfordshire Scouts for ten years. He is President of the Royal British Legion Oxfordshire, and Chairman of the CountyForum of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Oxfordshire.High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1994.
Nigel Mogg / Brigadier Nigel Mogg DL
Army Officer 1958-92-The Royal Green Jackets, formerly Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire LI.Chairman OxfordshireReserve Forces & Cadets 1994-2005. HonColThe Rifles Oxfordshire 1995-. High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 2002. Trustee: Darell-Brown Trust (Oxon & Bucks), Oxfordshire VCH Trust, RGJMuseum Trust and theLowndes-Stone Trust. Patron of the Living of Ewelme Benefice. PresidentWatlington RBL.
Stephanie North / Lady North OBE DL
Magistrate for thirty years and was chair during that time of the Oxford City Bench, the Oxfordshire Youth Court and the Oxfordshire Magistrates' Association.Served as a member of the Lord Lieutenant's Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace and the Oxfordshire Advisory Committee on General Commissioners of Income Tax. She was formerly Chair of the Probation Boards' Association and is Vice Chairman of the Oxfordshire Community Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Girls' Day School Trust and is a member of the advisory committee of the Oxford Philomusica Orchestra.
Mike O'Regan / Mr Mike O'Regan OBE DL
Local businessman. In 1973 he was a joint founder of RM plc, the leading supplier of ICT to UK schools and colleges. He is involved with several small private technology companies and is a co-founder and non-executive director of the Oxford Technology VCTs.He is co-founder and trustee of PEEP, the Peers Early Education Partnership, and chairs Hamilton Trust, another educational charity.
Dick Squires / Dr Dick Squires MBE DL
Retired GP. Serial social entrepreneur in the Wantage area ie established Lains Barn 1973; creation of Vale & Downland Museum Centre 1980; founder of Court Hill youth hostel on the Ridgeway from five relocated barns 1982; founder member of trust which established Betjeman memorial park in Wantage.
Marion Stevenson / Mrs Marion Stevenson DL
Was originally a probation officer. She is a family mediator and is Director of Oxfordshire Family Mediation and a trainer for National Family Mediation. She was previously a governor of the UK College of Family Mediators. Marion was founder and Chair of Oxford Community Mediation. With her husband, Tim, she jointly chairs Charity Centre Oxford, a registered charity that worked to create the shared building for charities and social enterprises in the Cowley Road, the OldMusic Hall.
Tony Stratton / Mr Tony Stratton DL
Local businessman.Chairman of CPM Group, based in Thame. Chairman or NEDof3 other businesses within the marketingcommunications industry. Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Marketors, Member of the Marketing Group of Great Britain and Fellow of the RSA. Chair of Oxford Inspires, Past President of The OxfordshireCounty and Thame Show and Patron of the Thame Youth Memorial.
Kate Tiller / Dr Kate Tiller DL
An historian who was Reader in English Local History at the University of Oxford until 2004, (now Reader Emerita), and is a Fellow of Kellogg College. She is Chairman of the Oxfordshire Victoria County HistoryTrust and of the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board. She is author and editor of numerous books and articles on the history of Oxfordshire.Projects in 2009-11 include an historical atlas of Oxfordshire and an online research guide to Oxfordshire history.She is a member of the Committee of Oxford University Rugby Football Club.
Rod Walker / Mr Rod Walker DL
Headteacher of Larkmead School, Abingdon 1985-1996; headteacher of The Henry Box School, Witney 1996-2007; helped to devise and implement Oxfordshire's Local Management of Schools scheme. Trustee of Oxfordshire Independent/State Schools Partnership; and Auditory Verbal UK (supporting profoundly deaf children and their families). Lay member of various NHS assessment panels and disciplinary tribunals for barristers.

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