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Governors

Stephen Cockburn (Chairman) still works in the City and for many years was a Governor of Brighton College and The Yehudi Menuhin School. He has three daughters and one Old Cumnorian son and eight grandchildren, seven of whom are or have been at the school. He lives at Cuckfield. 



Roddy Gye (Deputy Chairman and Chairman of Development Committee) was a pupil at Cumnor House in the 1960s. He runs a multimedia production, staging and technology company, and is also an occasional freelance journalist. He regularly helps with the lighting and effects at CHS plays and in the theatre. He lives in London.

Mark Beddy (Chairman of Finance Committee), a chartered accountant and father of two Old Cumnorian daughters, is a partner with Deloitte in London. His wife Nicola teaches French horn in the music department at CHS. They live at Furners Green.



Sarah Jelly (Chairman of Risk Committee), a mother of two Old Cumnorians, a son and a daughter, is a solicitor specialising in family law with a firm in Tunbridge Wells. She lives at Lewes.



Harriet Creamer is mother of three Old Cumnorian sons. Until May 1999, she was a partner with city law firm Freshfields and now works for them as a consultant. She lives at Piltdown.

Sarah Evans-Thomas

 is mother of one Old Cumnorian son and a daughter at the school. She is a chartered accountant and Director of Finance and Resources at Glyndebourne. She lives at Cooksbridge.



Richard Grainger

 is a chartered accountant and was Chief Executive and later Chairman of Close Brothers Corporate Finance in the city. He has four daughters, three Old Cumnorians and one still at the school. He lives at Crawley Down.

Nick Parkhouse

, father of four Old Cumnorians, two sons and two daughters, is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the McIndoe Surgical Centre at East Grinstead. He lives at Chelwood Gate.
 


Martin Roberts

, father of two Old Cumnorians, a son and a daughter, is a partner and Head of the London office with national law firm Pinsent Masons. He specialises in construction and engineering law and lives at Newick. 



Nigel Talbot Rice

 was Headmaster of Summer Fields, Oxford for 22 years. Since then, he has been a consultant for English Heritage raising £225,000 for the Albert Memorial, was Development Consultant at Downe House and is a Director of the Misys Charitable Foundation. He is a Governor of three other Prep Schools.



Nigel Welby

, father of three Old Cumnorian daughters, is involved with a number of businesses concerned principally with property investment, development and finance. He is Chairman of Retirement Villages Limited and lives at South Chailey.