Governing Body Members' Details
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Richard Burbidge, O.B.E., D.L., B.A., Chairman.
Richard was educated at Shrewsbury School (Churchill’s 1955-1959, 1st VIII, Deputy Head of School) and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he read Economics and Law. Richard is Chairman of Richard Burbidge Ltd., a timber products company with 400+ employees. He was Chairman of The Oswestry Orthopaedic NHS Trust Hospital from 1994 to 2001, and is currently Chairman of The Torch Appeal, Chairman of The Institute of Orthopaedics, and is a past Chairman of The Timber Research and Development Association. In 2004, he was awarded an OBE for services to industry and the local community. |
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Stephen Baker, B.Sc., F.C.A., C.F.
Stephen is a graduate of Manchester University and a Chartered Accountant. He has been a partner at Grant Thornton UK LLP since 1987 and currently leads their London Corporate Finance team. He was a Governor at Terra Nova, a co-educational preparatory school in Cheshire, from 2002 - 2010. His son is an Old Salopian. |
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Tom Biggins
Tom was educated at Shrewsbury (School House 1973 – 77), is a Conservative member of Shropshire Council and serves on the Pensions Committee. Previously he was a member of Shropshire County Council since 1997. He is the managing director of the family firm of cheese factors, S. Biggins Ltd, based in Whitchurch. |
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Dr. Rosalind P. Blakesley, M.A., D.Phil.
Rosalind is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in the Arts and Crafts Movement and in Russian art, on which she has written various books. She has also curated major exhibitions in the UK and abroad. She is now working on a new book on painting and patronage in Imperial Russia, for which she has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. |
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Lt. Col. Stephen Caney, M.B.E., B.A.
After commanding The 3rd Battalion The Light Infantry, Stephen Caney, a graduate of the University of Wales, came to Shrewsbury as Careers Master/Religious Studies teacher in 1983. He was subsequently Second Master from 1993 to 1999. |
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Matthew Collins
Matthew has a degree in history from St Catharine’s College Cambridge. He is a partner of Hutton Collins & Company which manages private equity funds on behalf of institutional clients. In a 26-year career in investment banking Matthew has held directorships at Morgan Grenfell, Bankers Trust Company and Merrill Lynch. |
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Professor Christopher Dobson, F.R.S., FMedSci. Christopher Dobson has been an ex-officio Governor since 2007 and is a member of the Education Committee. Christopher was educated at Abingdon School and at Keble and Merton Colleges, Oxford. In 2001 he moved to the University of Cambridge as John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology. He was elected Master of St John’s College in December 2006, and took up the office in September 2007. |
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Andrew Haining, M.A.
Andrew is an Old Salopian (Deputy Head of School and Captain of Fives) and a Cambridge graduate who was an executive at Bank of America, an investment director of County Development Capital and then CEO of Botts & Company. He co-founded Balmuir Partners in 2005 and is Chairman of Heartstone Inns. His past directorships include Norcros, Malmaison, Scotsman Hotels and Hugo Boss. |
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Dr. Fiona Hay, M.A. (Oxon), B.M., B.Ch., D.R.C.O.G., M.R.C.G.P., D.F.F.P., MSc. Pall. Med. (Cardiff)
Fiona is an Oxford graduate and full time GP Principal in Shropshire with an interest in gynaecology and palliative care. She works regularly with medical students and Registrars for teaching and training purposes, and also runs a weekly health clinic at her local secondary school. Fiona has a son who is currently at Shrewsbury. |
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Tim Haynes, B.A., P.G.C.E.
Tim has been Headmaster of Tonbridge School since 2005 and he was Headmaster of Monmouth School for ten years before that, having previously been Surmaster (Deputy Head) of St Paul's School in London. He is a governor of several independent and maintained schools, and is an Old Salopian. |
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Algernon Heber-Percy
Algy has been a soldier and is now a farmer and landowner, with a special interest in conservation and fine art. He has been Chairman of the Mercia Regional Committee for the National Trust and a Trustee of the National Gardens Scheme. He has also been the Honorary Colonel of two TA Infantry Battalions and is associated with many charities and trusts within the county of Shropshire. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1996. |
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Winston Hunter, Q.C.
Winston has a LLB in Law (Leeds Univ). He was called to the Bar in 1985 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 2000. He has been appointed to sit as Recorder of the Crown Court and Deputy High Court Judge and practices from Chambers in London and Manchester. He is a co-opted member of the Medical Ethics Committee and also governor at an independent Preparatory school. Winston has two boys currently at Shrewsbury. |
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Professor E. Wynne Jones, O.B.E., B.Sc., Ph.D., Hon. D.Sc., F.R.Ag.S., F.A.I.Agr.E., F.I.Biol. Wynne Jones was appointed Governor in 2007 by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. He is a member of the Audit and Education Committees. Wynne is an Agriculture graduate and Doctor of Philosophy, who joined Harper Adams University College as Vice Principal and Director of Research in 1988, and was appointed Principal and Chief Executive in 1996. He has an Honorary DSc from Cranfield University, and he won the National Agricultural Award for outstanding services to the agricultural industry in 2005; in 2007 The Farmers Club recognised his outstanding contribution to British agriculture. In 2009 he was awarded an OBE for services to local and national Higher Agricultural Education. He has served on many boards, and is currently: member of the Board of Trustees and Council of Lantra; member of the Board and Council of AMTRA (Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority; member of the West Midlands Higher Education Association Strategic Board; Council Member, Royal Agricultural Society of England. |
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Lyndsey Pollard, L.L.B.
Originally from Yorkshire, Lyndsey is a Nottingham graduate who worked briefly in the City before moving to Shrewsbury to join Hatchers solicitors in 1986. Specialising in corporate and commercial property law she became a partner in 1991 and senior partner in 2005. After almost a quarter of a century in private practice, Lyndsey has recently accepted an invitation to become Company Secretary and Group Solicitor for one of the County’s best known family companies, Morris & Company. In her new role, Lyndsey enjoys involvement in the Company’s business interests in property investment/development, care, site machinery and PR and marketing. |
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Professor Donald Ritchie, C.B.E., F.R.S.E., D.L.
Donald is a Leicester graduate with a PhD from The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. His career as a molecular biologist included posts at Johns Hopkins and Glasgow Universities and appointment as Professor of Genetics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Liverpool University. He has served on various Research Council and academic Boards and was Deputy Chairman of the Environment Agency. Appointed a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Institute of Biology, The Royal Society Leverhulme Research Trust and a Royal Society of Engineering Visiting Professor in Sustainable Development. In 2002 he was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside and awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to science and the environment. |
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Alderman David Roberts
David is a Conservative member of the Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council Cabinet who is also on the Personnel and Planning Committees and the Development Plan Advisory Group. His portfolios cover Investments, Destination Shrewsbury and Unitary Debate. He is on the boards of the Shrewsbury Business Partnership Management Group, of GO Davies (Westbury) Ltd. – the largest independent agricultural merchants in Wales and the West Midlands – and also of the West Midlands Local Government Association, and he is a Governor of Shrewsbury Sixth Form College. |
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Tomlinson
He is a Lord Justice of Appeal and has an Old Salopian son. |
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Hugh Trevor-Jones, D.L.
Hugh is an engineer who was educated at Harrow (Head of School) and Southampton, and is now the fifth generation Chairman of the family’s international manufacturing business; he was a governor of Packwood Haugh from 2001 to 2008, during which he chaired the school’s new theatre appeal, and in 2009 he was commissioned as Deputy Lieutenant for Shropshire. Two of Hugh’s children are Salopians. |
Richard Burbidge has been a Co-opted Governor since 2005 and was appointed Chairman of the Governing Body in January 2008. He is Chairman of the Finance & Marketing, and Nominations & Remuneration Committees, and he is also a member of the Investment Committee.
Stephen Baker became a Co-opted Governor in January 2012. He is a member of the Finance & Marketing and Investment Committees.
Tom Biggins was appointed governor by Shropshire Council in 2011. He is a member of the Audit and Finance & Marketing Committees and he is also employer representative Trustee of the two pension schemes.
Rosalind Blakesley has been a Governor since 2008 when she was appointed by the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Education Committee.
Stephen Caney was appointed as Governor, elected by the Headmaster and Assistant Masters of the School, in 2006. He is a member of the Education, Finance & Marketing and Nominations & Remuneration Committees, and he is also employer representative Trustee of the 1971 Pension Scheme.
Matthew Collins became a Co-opted Governor in 2008. He is a trustee of the Shrewsbury School Foundation and a member of the Investment Committee.
Andrew Haining has been a Co-opted Governor since 2001. He is a member of the Finance & Marketing and Nominations & Remuneration Committees. He is Chairman of the Investment Committee and also of the Shrewsbury School Foundation.
Fiona Hay has been a Co-opted Governor since 2007; she is a member of the Education Committee.
Tim Haynes became a Co-opted Governor in 2010.
Algy Heber-Percy was appointed Governor in 2004. He is a member of the Nominations & Remuneration Committee.
Winston Hunter has been a Co-opted Governor since 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee.
Lyndsey Pollard has been a Co-opted Governor since 2008. She is a member of the Education and Finance & Marketing Committees.
Donald Ritchie has been a Governor since 2003, appointed by the President and Council of The Royal Society. He became Deputy Chairman of the Governing Body in January 2007, and is Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Finance & Marketing and Nominations & Remuneration Committees.
David Roberts was appointed Governor by the Corporation of Shrewsbury in 2004. He is a member of the Audit and Finance & Marketing Committees.
Sir Stephen has been a Governor since 2003, appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He is a member of the Nominations & Remuneration Committee.
Hugh Trevor-Jones has been a Co-opted Governor since 2006. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Finance & Marketing Committee.