About Us

Trustees

Bob Clarke: Bob is a chemical engineer by profession, a former oil company executive and now Chairman of Milford Haven Port Authority.

Peter Davies OBE: Vice Chair (Wales) of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Other responsibilities include coordinating the Prince of Wales’ charities and being chair of the West Wales branch of the Institute of Welsh Affairs.

Dr Karen James (director of science) works full time at the Natural History Museum in London doing original research in the Department of Botany.

David Lort-Phillips shares ancestry with John Lort Stokes, the mate and surveyor during the 1831-36 voyage, and went on to command HMS Beagle during subsequent surveying voyage to western Australial. David is a director of the Darwin Centre for Biology and Medicine in Wales and has a strong interest in science,

Peter McGrath read zoology at Liverpool University where a course on the history of the idea of evolution sparked a deep interest in Darwin's work. Peter is a freelance writer and commercial yacht skipper.

Adrian Richardson is a former schoolmaster and director of the Cothill Educational Trust.

Patrons:
Lord Julian Hunt CB MA PhD FIMA FRS
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD
Lord Richard Livsey CBE DL