Mr Richard Carter Jonas
Richard Carter Jonas was educated at Charterhouse and Kings College, Cambridge. After National Service, he pursued a career as a chartered surveyor. He was a partner, then a consultant, with Carter Jonas, as well as a Crown Estate Receiver, and an Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Valuer.
Richard is now retired, but takes an active role in charitable works; he is currently a Trustee of Oxford Preservation Trust as well as another charitable trust and an estate company in Kent.

Rear Admiral Phillip Edwards
Born and bred in an all-Welsh environment in 1942 he embarked on his naval career as a 15 year old Royal Naval Reserve cadet in the training ship HMS Conway. In the next 33 years his career progressed with alternate appointments at sea and ashore. In total he served in a battleship, an aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, 4 destroyers, a frigate and last but not least, for 2 unforgettable years, in Her Majesty's Yacht, Britannia as the Commander (E).
In 1977 whilst a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies he was amongst the first group of western military officers to visit China since the Revolution in 1948. Following 2 years as Captain of the Operational Sea Training Base at Portland he was promoted to Rear Admiral and in 1980 became Director General of Fleet Support (Policy and Services). During the Faiklands War he had particular responsibility for the logistical aspects of the campaign and afterwards for evaluating the lessons learnt. Some hundreds of recommendations were made concerning the design and operation of warships and their equipment..
He was made an LVO (Lieutenant of the Victorian Order) in 1970 and an ADC to her Majesty the Queen in 1980. In 1983 he was awarded a CB (Companion of the Order of the Bath) and retired from the Royal Navy at the end of that year to become a Fellow and Domestic Bursar of Wadham College, Oxford. From 1988 to 1994 he was chairman of the university's Committee of Domestic Bursars. On his retirement as Bursar he was elected an Emeritus Fellow and served for a further 5 years as Development Director.
He and his wife Gwen had 3 daughters who produced 7 grandchildren between them. Their much loved daughter Lynn died in 2002. Both the Admiral and his wife are Welsh speaking and maintain strong connections with the principality. He was a member of the Health Policy Board for Wales for 5 years.
He is or has been President or Vice President of several ex-service and cadet organisations in Oxfordshire and the wider Midlands. He is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, a Freeman of the City of London and a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Management and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Technical and Scientific Communicators. His recreations are golf, travel and tending his garden on Boars Hill.

Professor Roger Ainsworth
Roger Ainsworth is Master of St Catherine’s College, and Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. Born in 1951, he attended Lancaster Grammar School before going to work as an apprentice with Rolls-Royce Aeroengines. After the successful completion of his apprenticeship, he came to Oxford to study at Jesus College. In 1973, he graduated with a 1st Class BA, and then undertook graduate research that led to him being awarded a doctorate in 1976. Leaving Oxford, he went to work for Rolls-Royce and, later, the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. He returned to Oxford, in 1985, as a Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine’s College. In 1998, he was awarded the title of Professor of Engineering Science. He was elected to the position of Master of St Catherine’s in 2002.

Professor Ainsworth, who is also a Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He has, at various stages of his career, been a technical evaluator for the NATO Advisory Group for Research and Development, an advisor to Oxford Catalysts Group plc and a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Professor Ainsworth’s work on turbomachinery has been published in a range of scientific journals and he is a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne. He was awarded the Knight order of the Dannebrog in 2006.

Mr Charles Cooper
Graduated from Bristol University in 1970 with a degree in Economics and Politics, and spent eight years with Courtaulds in Manchester, Munich and Brussels.
Director of Cooper Callas since 1978, since when both home and office have been n the City of Oxford.
A Trustee of Oxford Preservation Trust since 1999.

Professor Malcolm Airs
Professor Malcom Airs has recently been appointed Vice President of Kellogg, Oxford’s newest college. He was previously Professor of Conservation at the Historic Environment at the University of Oxford and before that Conservation Officer for South Oxfordshire District Council and a historian for the Greater London Council. He is a past president of the Institute of Historic building Conservation and a former commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. He served on advisory committees for English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Trust. He has published extensively on both historic conservation and architectural history.

Mr John Ashdown
John Ashdown MBE, Hon MA (Oxon), FSA IHBC with a diploma in Conservation of Historical Monuments.
Worked in a London architectural practice before transferring to the Greater London Council's Historic Buildings division in 1964.
Oxford City Council Conservation Officer 1972-2000.
A Trustee since 2000, Mr Ashdown lives in North Oxford

Professor Georgia Butina Watson
Georgia Butina Watson is Professor of Urban Design and Head of Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University. She has co-authored several books and exhibitions on theory and practice of urban design and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences in the UK and abroad. Her professional expertise includes the study of urban morphology, community development and place identity. She is a coauthor and co-editor, with Roger Zetter of Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World (Ashgate 2006) and a co-author with lan Bentley of Identity by Design (Architectural Press, 2007). She makes regular visiting lecturing contributions to UK and overseas universities and her latest virtual, distance learning project for A-level Geography teachers and students on Making Better Places won several commendations and a Silver Medal Award from the British Geographical Association. She also designed and delivered many in-house and distance learning training courses for local authority officers, including the Beacon award project (DCLG) for West Dorset District Council. She Chaired the ESRC Planning and Housing Panel responsible for developing national guidance for research training programmes in the built environment and she Chairs the Oxford Brookes University Research Degree Committee. She was also on the RTPI Editorial Board responsible for Planning Matters, a virtual learning portal for practising planners. She is presently a member of the Advisory Group for the Department of Media, Culture and Sport responsible for developing a national virtual teaching material on built environment for primary and secondary school students. She has developed many innovative courses including the Partnership Trust award course in urban design and has been external examiner at many UK Universities.

Her Honour Judge Campbell
Read History of Art at Cambridge University specialising in modern architecture which has remained a keen interest.
Has lived in the North Oxford Conservation Area for 30 years.
A qualified solicitor practising in Oxford from 1974 - 1992. District Judge in Oxford from 1992 - 2004. Recently retired as a Circuit Judge sitting principally in Reading.
Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
Married to HH Judge Quentin Campbell

Cllr Colin Cook
Was born and brought up in New Brighton on the Wirral and came up to Oxford in 1982 to read Biochemistry at Hertford College. In 1986 he did a year of teacher training at Homerton College, Cambridge, and then returned to Oxford for further study, this time in Physiology at the Queen’s College. In 1999 he was elected to represent West Ward, now Jericho & Osney Ward, on Oxford City Council and is currently the City Executive Board Member with responsibility for City Development including Development Control, the Covered Market, Tourism, and the Redevelopment of the West End. He is the Chief Technician at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre.

Cllr Roy Darke
Cllr Roy Darke trained as an architect at UCL, and studied an MSc in Urban Regional Studies from LSE going on to teach Town Planning at Sheffield University from 1969-1994 and then at Oxford Brookes University from 1994-2002. His research focuses on urban management, housing, councillors and town planning practice – especially public participation. He is currently City Councillor for Headington Hill and Northway, and County Councillor for the Headington/Marston division. His interests include modern art, the arts and crafts movement and in particular fine printing.

Cllr John Goddard
John Goddard has been an elected member of Oxford City Council since May 1998. He was a member of the Council’s Planning Committee from his election and was Chair of Planning and portfolio holder for planning from 2000-2002. Before his election to the Council he had been a Clerk in the House of Lords, a Senior Home Office Civil Servant and a headmaster. Since January 2003 he has been the Chairman of the Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and has lived in Oxford the last 18 years.

Cllr Timothy Hallchurch
Cllr, Lt Col Timothy T Hallchurch MBE FCMI MBA IIHHT MGHT MIOD AMBCS
Timothy lived in Horton cum Studley, near Oxford since leaving the army in 1984 but moved to Thrupp in 2007. He was commissioned into Royal Signals from Sandhurst in 1961, and served in Aden, Ministry of Defence, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Germany and many other parts of the world and was responsible for all the long range communications during the Falklands War in 1982. He was awarded the MBE in 1970 for humanitarian work in Jordan. On leaving the Regular Army, he joined the TA and commanded the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
Tim has since worked in the defence industry and formed Oxford Strategic Ltd in 1998 until he retired as MD in August 2005 to concentrate on County and District Council work. He is the County Councillor for Otmoor and Kirlington Division, where he is a member of the Planning, Health Scrutiny, Adult Services and Audit committees. and Member of Cherwell District Council where he is chairman of the appeals panel and lead member of the Standards committee.
He is a past Chairman of Oxfordshire Institute of Directors (and now a committee member) and also active in the Federation of Small Business and local history (Committee, Otmoor Archaeological and Historical Society). He is a keen conservationist, ornithologist and an historian and has written a number of historical books including A History of Horton cum Studley. He is also works part time as a qualified aromatherapist and organises and leads bird expeditions overseas that have included, Nepal, India, Malaysia, Belize, Poland, Romania, Ecuador and Ethiopia. Tim is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Member of the British Ornithologists Union (MBOU) and Associate of the British Computer Society. He was awarded an MBA in 2003 and a Diploma in Local English History at Kellogg College in 2009.

Mr Tom Hassall
Tom Hassall is a freelance archaeological and heritage management consultant. He is currently working on the archaeological aspects of a number of regeneration projects in amongst other places: Bath, Chester, Liverpool and Manchester. From 1986 to 1999 he was the Secretary and Chief Executive of the former Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME). He was the founder director of the Oxford Archaeological Unit (1973-1985), now Oxford Archaeology. He is Chairman of the UK Government’s Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites and is a member of the DCMS Steering Group for the Review of Heritage Protection in England. He is the Chairman of the International Council on Monuments and Sites UK World Heritage Committee. He is an Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Mrs Lucy Hughes
Resident of Old Marston 1940-1959 and 1975 to the present.
My father was originally owner and latterly tenant of the Trust agricultural land in Marston until 1960. This was the starting point for my interest in Trust affairs in Marston in particular and Oxford as a whole. My membership of the Trust began in 1978 and I joined the Marston Area Committee in 1979 becoming Hon. Secretary 1980-1984 and again in 1991 to the present time.

Mrs Isobel Hughes
Born 1964.
BScBArch Cardiff University, completed professional qualification in 1990.
Worked for Purcell Miller Tritton as conservation architect for 4 years.
Conservation Officer at West Oxfordshire District COuncil.
Architect for Oxford University for 4 years before becoming Head of Conservation and Buildings.

Mr Frank Marshall
Born Glasgow 1957, educated in Scotland and read History at Cambridge University.
Worked at Schroders from 1979 - 1999 as banker and investment manager.
1999-2000 Graduated (M Phil.) Cambridge University.
Since 2001 Estates Bursar of University College, Oxford.
Married with one daughter.

Cllr Keith Mitchell
Keith Mitchell qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1967 and enjoyed a successful career in publishing and professional education until selling his business interests in 1990 to enter public service.
He has served as Oxfordshire County Councillor for the Bloxham Division since 1989. He served as Social Services Spokesman in the hung council from 1995 to 1999. He has been Conservative Group Leader since 1999 and was elected Leader of the Council in the new administration from 5 November 2001.
Keith is the Oxfordshire County Council appointee to the South East England Regional Assembly. He served as Chairman of the Regional Planning Committee from July 2002 to July 2005 and was elected Chairman of the South East Regional Assembly on 13 July 2005, serving to July 2008.
Being Leader of the Council is more than a full-time job but, when he can find the time to relax, he enjoys good food and wine, playing piano (badly) and reading avidly- particularly histories and biographies. He is active in Freemasonry and a keen supporter of country sports.
In HM the Queen’s 2007 Birthday Honours, Keith was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of services to local government.

Mr James Offen
James Offen is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Honorary Fellow of the College of Estate Management and an Emeritus Fellow at Oriel College (of which he was Fellow and Estates Bursar from 1993 to 2000).
Member of Council, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1973-1999, Chairman of RICS Education Committee 1978-1984, and Honorary Treasurer 1990-94. From 1985 to 1990 he was Chairman of the College of Estate Management.
He was Director at Savilles International Property Consultants until 2000 and is now a Consultant at Marriotts Chartered Surveyors.

Dr Ian Scargill
Studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Departmental Demonstrator in Geography, University of Oxford 1959-64 and University Lecturer in Geography in 1964- 2000. A Fellow of St Edmund Hall from 1962, he was made Emeritus Fellow in 2000.
The author of books and articles on France and Urban Geography. Outside of work he was an Oxford City Magistrate from 1977 to 2005, and is an Elder and Associate Church Secretary at the Summertown United Reformed Church.
Chairman of Oxford Green Belt Network.

Mr Dick Stevens
Born in Boars Hill, where he now lives. Studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then worked as Head of Biology in Scarborough College and Machakos School, Kenya where he became Deputy Head. He returned to England in 1974, and returned again to Kenya in 1979 becoming Headmaster of Hillcrest Secondary School. From 1989 he has been Managing Director of Stevco Limited.
His interests outside work include golf, tennis, sailing, and choir singing which he currently does with the Abingdon and District Musical Society also sitting on their committee. He also enjoys modern domestic architecture and gardening.

Mr David Streat
Self employed Chartered Surveyor.
Attended school in Oxford and returned to live in the city. Has been a permanent resident of Oxford for the last 25 years.
Interested both profesionally and personally in buildings, land and associated matters.

Dr Geoffrey Tyack
Geoffrey Tyack is a Fellow of Kellogg Colege and Director of the Stanford University Centre in Oxford, a position he has held since 1984. He read history at St John’s College Oxford, staying on there write an M.Litt thesis on the building of Warwickshire country houses. He then worked as assistant editor of the Victoria County History of Middlesex before starting to work as a lecturer in history for Stanford University at Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire, and writing a doctoral thesis for the University of London on the work of the Victorian architect Sir James Pennethore. Since returning to Oxford he has taught and lectured on architectural history and related subjects in the Department for Continuing Education and elsewhere in the University and beyond. He has also written several books, including Oxford: an Architectural Guide (OUP 1998) and Modern Architecture in an Oxford College (OUP 2005), and has published articles on a wide variety of architectural topics. He is currently working on the revision of the Berkshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of England series and on a new biography of the architect John Nash. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a keen amateur musician, playing the organ and conducting the choir at Iffley church. He lives in south Oxford (and has one of the city’s boundary stones in his back garden), is married, and has three children.

Professor Heather Viles
Heather Viles is Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation in the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Geography, Worcester College, Oxford and Lecturer in Geography, St Hilda’s College. She works in the School of Geography and the Environment where she teaches geography undergraduates, contributes to Masters teaching and supervises D.Phil students. Her research focuses on the breakdown of rocks in the natural environment and within cultural heritage. Recent projects include working with English Heritage on developing soft wall capping methods for conserving ruins as well as investigating whether ivy on walls is a good or bad thing. Her current research is funded by EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, NASA and English Heritage. She chaired the University’s Environment Panel and sat on their Buildings and Estates Sub-Committee for three years and is on the advisory board of the AHRC/EPSRC Research Programme on Science and Heritage and was a member of the steering group of the National Heritage Science Strategy.

Mr Timothy Wilson
READ Classical Mods and English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and did graduate work at the Warburg Institute and at the University of Leicester. He worked at the National Maritime Museum (1978-80) and the British Museum (1980-90) and since has been Keeper of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum and a Professorial Fellow of Balliol. His academic interests and publications are mainly in the ‘minor arts’ of the Renaissance, especially Italian maiolica. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, and of the Accademia Raffaello, Urbino.

Mrs Debbie Dance MSc, MRICS, IHBC, RSA
Debbie Dance has been the Director of Oxford Preservation Trust since 1999. She is a Chartered Surveyor and has been involved in the built environment for over 25 years with an MSc in Historic Conservation (distinction)1992 Oxford Brookes University.
Debbie has been involved in a number of roles and projects within her field of expertise and is considered to be at the forefront of conservation in the 21st century, bringing together her expertise in the historic environment with her knowledge of the commercial property field. She has completed a number of successful restoration and re- use projects in Oxford and elsewhere. She is past chair of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts and has been a panel member of the Heritage Lottery Fund South East.
Debbie is the Conservation Judge for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for their International RICS Property Awards since 2002. She is a Trustee of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Debbie has lived in Oxford since her schooldays and her role at the Trust is demonstration of her passion and commitment to the place.