Her Majesty The Queen - Patron
Her Majesty The Queen has been Patron of Cumberland Lodge since 2003, taking over from Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her Majesty renewed the royal warrant granting use of this beautiful house, originally bestowed by her father King George VI.
Lord Justice Laws, PC - Visitor
Lord Justice Laws practised at the Common Law Bar from 1971 to 1992. He was First Junior Treasury Counsel (Common Law) from 1984 to 1992. He was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales in 1987 and Gibraltar in 1988. Since 1997 he has been a Judicial Visitor at UCL. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College in 1992, and an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 2000. His recreations inclue Greece, living in London and philosophy.
He has been a Visitor to Cumberland Lodge since 2004.
Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG LVO - Chairman
Formerly Private Secretary to the Prime Minister 1991-1993, Ambassador to Portugal, Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, and Head of the European Secretariat of the Cabinet Office. He is also currently Chairman of Council, University College London.
Ms Lynne Berry, OBE
Lynne Berry is Vice Chair of the new Canal and River Trust. She founded Public Benefit and is an associate of Civil Exchange. Formerly Lynne was Chief Executive of WRVS, the General Social Care Council and Equal Opportunities Commission Association, and Executive Director of the Charity Commission. Amongst other roles, she has served on several Government bodies including the Office of Civil Society Advisory Board and many Better Regulation Task Forces, and chaired the Social Action Fund Panel.
Sir Graeme Davies, FREng FRSE
Sir Graeme graduated BE, PhD from the University of Auckland and MA, ScD from St Catharine's College, Cambridge. After holding various academic posts he became Professor of Metallurgy at Sheffield University in 1978.
From 1986-91 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. He was Chief Executive successively of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics & Colleges Funding Council. He became Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 1992. From 1995-2003 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from October 2003 until 2010.
Sir Graeme is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Honorary Graduate of twelve Universities including Liverpool, Glasgow, Auckland, Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan, Nottingham and Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music and of the Royal Veterinary College.
He has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2008.
Professor Malcolm D. Evans, OBE
Malcolm Evans is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. His areas of specialism include the international law of the sea and international human rights protection. His particular areas of interest concern torture and torture prevention and the protection of religious liberty under international law. He is a member of the OSCE ODIHR Advisory Council on the Freedom of Religion or Belief, and of the UK FCO Advisory Panel on Torture. He is also a member of the International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice and of the Board of Management of the NGO, Association for the Prevention of Torture. He is also Deputy Chair of the Governing Body of Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
Professor Malcolm Evans has been a trustee since 2009 and also chairs the Cumberland Lodge Academic Advisory Committee.
Sir John Gieve, KCB
Chairman of VocaLink. Formerly Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, and private secretary to three Chancellors of the Exchequer. From 2001 to 2005 he was Permanent Secretary at The Home Office.
The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones
Robin Griffiths-Jones is Master of the Temple Church, London. Robin was formerly Chaplain at Lincoln College, Oxford, and is a Visiting Senior Lecturer (Theology) at King's College, London. Robin's specialism is the New Testament, on which he has published widely.
Mr Paul Hampden Smith
Paul Hampden Smith has been Finance Director of Travis Perkins Plc the listed Builders Merchants and DIY retailer for the last 15 years. The Group has rapidly expanded by acquisition over the last 12 years and currently trades from 17 brands including Travis Perkins, Wickes and BSS a business that it purchased at the end of 2010. The overall turnover of the group is now close to £5 billion. In recent years he has served on the boards of DX services plc, Polestar (printing), and is currently Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Redrow Plc the quoted House builder.
Paul was born near Canterbury where he went to school, read Economics and Accounting at Bristol University, then trained as an Accountant in London with a stint abroad in the Vancouver office. His interests include most sports but particularly Sailing, Skiing, Tennis, but in recent times he has joined Sarah in supporting his two young sons from various Rugby touchlines somewhere in rural Northamptonshire!
Mr Hapden-Smith became a trustee of Cumberland Lodge in 2011.
Professor Tom Kirkwood, CBE
Tom Kirkwood is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. Educated in biology and mathematics at Cambridge and Oxford, he worked at the National Institute for Medical Research, until he became Professor of Biological Gerontology at the University of Manchester.
He was European President (Biology) of the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology, chaired the UK Foresight Task Force on ‘Healthcare and Older People’, led the project on ‘Mental Capital Through Life’ within the recent Foresight programme, was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee inquiry into ‘Ageing: Scientific Aspects’ and has served on the Councils of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). His books include the award-winning Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Ageing; Chance, Development and Ageing (with Caleb Finch); and The End of Age based on his BBC Reith Lectures in 2001.
Tom Kirkwood has served as a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2007.
Mr David Lunn, OBE LLB
David Lunn is a lawyer by profession and joined the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead initially as Borough Secretary. In 1996 he became Chief Executive and played a key part in creating and shaping the Royal Borough as a unitary authority in April 1998. In 1997 David was appointed by the Secretary of State as a Board Member of the English Tourism Council (ETC), the only person from local government to perform such a role.He served two terms until the abolition of the ETC in 2003 and was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours for his work in tourism. He retired after twelve years as Chief Executive in 2007.
Since retirement David has become a Non-Executive Director of NHS Buckinghamshire, a Trustee of both Connexions Thames Valley and Connexions Buckinghamshire which he chairs.
David Lunn has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2008.
Dame Elizabeth Neville, DBE QPM
Dame Elizabeth became Chief Constable of Wiltshire Constabulary in 1997 and was only the second woman to lead a British police force. When she retired in 2004 she was appointed to the Civil Nuclear Police Authority as an Independent Member and Police Advisor. She was the Independent Complaints Assessor for the agencies of the Department for Transport until April 2010. Dame Elizabeth is a Non- Executive Director of the Serious Fraud Office. She is an Independent Adjudicator of Companies House and was appointed the High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 2010/11 Dame Elizabeth has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2002.
Mr Simon Pearce
Simon Pearce has been Company Secretary of Collins Stewart Hawkpoint plc since 2007 and also acted as Chief Financial Officer of the company in 2009. He is a director of Collins Stewart Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based subsidiary specialising in corporate finance. He co-founded Ludorum plc, the AIM-listed media investment company, and was Finance Director between 2005 and 2007. Prior to this, he was company secretary of HIT Entertainment plc from 2003 to 2005, P&O Princess Cruises plc from 2000 to 2003 and Wassall plc from 1994 to 2000. He joined Wassall in 1991 as Assistant to the Corporate Development Director having previously been an investment analyst with a specialist venture capital firm, Pine Street Investments Ltd. He is a Chartered Accountant and has an MA in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.
Mr Pearce became a trustee of Cumberland Lodge in 2011.
Baroness Jill Pitkeathley
Baroness Pitkeathley trained originally as a social worker and led the carers movement for twelve years, creating Carers National Association (now Carers UK) and turning what had been a private, hidden trouble, the needs of Great Britain’s six million carers, into a public issue. She remains a Vice President of Carers UK.
She was Chair of the New Opportunities Fund, responsible for allocating £2 billion of lottery money for six years and Chair of CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) for five years, from 2003 to 2008. She was also Chair of the Advisory Body for the Office for Civil Society (previously the Office of the Third Sector) from 2008 to 2011 and has been Chair of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) since January 2009.
Jill was raised to the peerage as Baroness Pitkeathley in 1997, and is a very active working peer as well as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
Baroness Pitkeathley became a trustee of Cumberland Lodge in 2011.
Baroness Prashar of Runnymede, PC, CBE
Baroness Prashar was appointed inaugural Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission in October 2005 –a post she held until September 2010.
From 2000 to 2005 she was the First Civil Service Commissioner. Before that she was Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales (1997-2000), Director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (1986-1991) and Director of the Runnymede Trust (1976-84). She was also a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991-1993) and was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (1992-1997).
A Crossbencher in the House of Lords, Baroness Prashar is a member of the Advisory Committee on Freedom of Information and served on the Joint Committee on Human Rights for six years. She is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, President of United Kingdom Council for International Student Affairs, President of Community Foundation Network and President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, having previously served as the Society’s chairman.
Baroness Prashar has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2007.
James Stewart, OBE
As Chief Executive of Infrastructure UK, Stewart oversaw the UK government's long-term planning, prioritization and delivery of infrastructure, while actively encouraging new sources of private sector investment. In 2010, he played a lead role in producing the UK's National Infrastructure Plan. Prior to this, he successfully led the operations of Partnerships UK for 10 years and was instrumental in establishing many of the UK's most influential and sustainable infrastructure delivery partnerships.
Mr Stewart has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2006.
Ms Salley Vickers
Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. Her father was a trade union leader and her mother a social worker. She won a state scholarship to St Paul’s Girl’s School and went on to read English at Newnham College, Cambridge, with which she recently renewed working ties. She has worked, variously, as a cleaner, a dancer, an artist’s model, a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. Her first novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, became an international word-of-mouth bestseller. She now writes full time and lectures widely on many subjects, particularly the connections between, art, literature, psychology and religion.
She has since written many acclaimed novels and also writes screen plays and for radio. She was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2002 and has since judges many literary events.
Her principal interests are opera, bird watching, dancing and poetry, to which her father introduced her at an early age. She has two adult sons, and two grandchildren, with whom she spends as much time as she possibly can. She is a member of PEN and the RSPB.
Salley Vickers has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2009.
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, PC
Lord Waldegrave served as a Conservative Member of the British Parliament from 1979 to 1997 (representing the Bristol West constituency), including sixteen years as a Minister, of which seven were as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Chief Secretary to HM Treasury, Secretary of State for Health, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with responsibility for the Civil Service Reform and Science.
From 1998-2008 he worked in the City, first at Deutsche Kleinwort Benson and then UBS. Since 2009 he has been the Provost of Eton College and is the Director of a number of companies. He is also Chairman of the Rhodes Trust, Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, and a Trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (South Africa).
Lord Waldegrave has been a trustee of Cumberland Lodge since 2009.
The Revd Dr Ralph Waller
The Revd Dr Ralph Waller is the Principal of Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford and Director of the Farmington Institute. He is also a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
In 1994 Dr. Waller won the UK Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. In 1992, 1997 and 2006 he was a Select Preacher to Oxford University. Dr. Waller, a Methodist Minister, is a former chairman of the Faculty of Theology and teaches and researches in the areas of Modern Church History and Religious Thought. He has contributed to a number of publications including Christian Spirituality (1999) and John Wesley: A Personal Portrait (2003) He has been awarded several Honorary Degrees from universities in America and Europe.
