School Governors

Ian Lucas has been in independent education since 1976. His experience includes teaching, boarding, administration, IT development and policy. Amongst his school activities he led expeditions to many out of the way places, was the musical director of a number...

Dermot McKechnie is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has over twenty years of investment banking experience. The majority of this was gained at Cazenove & Co. (latterly as a partner) and JPMorgan Cazenove. He currently lives full time in Somerset.

Deacon Mark Brown grew up in Plymouth where he attended St. Boniface College before training as a teacher at St. Mary’s Strawberry Hill. Mark qualified as a teacher in 1986 and has been teaching for over 30 years, firstly as...

Valerie Simmons de Fontanals qualified as a Chartered Architect in 1973 and then moved from London to work in private practice in Bath. In 1980 she began her own Architectural Practice and in 1997 gained an MSc from Bath University...

Rebecca Peacock is an Old Antonian and former teacher at Leweston. As a Dramatherapist and Teacher she works therapeutically with adults and children struggling with a range of mental health needs and currently specialises in re-engagement in education programmes for...

Professor Tony Meehan enjoyed a successful media, marketing and communications career in Scotland before retiring to Sherborne in 2013. He was chairman of his own public relations consultancy, TMA Communications Limited. During his career, he has held a wide range of charity...

Simon Greenwood enjoyed a public-school education at Winchester College.  He first came to live in West Dorset in 1972 on leaving school when he was a farm student at Ryme Intrinseca before going to Reading University in 1973 to study...

Janet Schofield graduated from Exeter University with a degree in Law. Janet worked in marketing, firstly in legal publishing and then the financial services industry. Always keen to try new and interesting things, when she and her husband were bringing...

Paul Felbeck is a solicitor with over thirty years’ experience, starting in the City of London, where he qualified at Freshfields and subsequently in a variety of international legal roles for US and UK listed public companies.  He now chairs the...

Jim Dutton served for 38 years in the Royal Marines, retiring as a Lieutenant General. In 2010, he joined the US firm Bechtel, spending two and a half years establishing and running a national infrastructure development project in Gabon, West...

Graham Best gained his degree at Southampton University, followed by a PGCE in Secondary Education. He has worked in four different schools, both day and boarding, single sex and co-educational, senior and all-through. Graham was fortunate to be given a...

Mark Brunel-Cohen was born near Liverpool, educated at Downside and Sandhurst (Army Scholar), followed by a thirty year career in the Wine Trade, the majority of which was with Allied Domecq. He married Sally in 1974 and raised their five...