- chief executive,

- Head of Parks and Countryside Service, Ealing Council

- Contact: Contours walking holidays - guided and self-led hiking tours

- former Director of Peak National Park Training and Education Centre

- ... took up the tenancy of their house in Kirklees just last week. "My daughter and I think it is amazing here, I always wanted to live in the country"

- author: Classic Hill Walks (Cassell and Co 0 706375351 £14.99)

- President, rural charity Northamptonshire ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England); Chairman, Jeffrey Greenwell

- Four years ago, Jerry Townsend and his family drove from their ranch in the shadow of the Highwood Mountains in the middle of Montana. The drive was lovely, but it was the race to put up new houses that got their attention. The next year he put a conservation easement on almost all of his 2,500-acre Montana ranch. "(Development) is not the legacy we want to leave."
High Country News, Sep 1998

- owner of 5000 acre Melbury Estate (Dorset), dominated by a lofty hexagonal tower built during Tudor times for viewing the park and the deer.