Outer circle
Merchant Venturers with a more peripheral involvement in
the society
* Lord William Waldegrave is an ex-Tory MP and now
a director of Bristol and West.
* Christopher Thomas is an ex-boss of Bristol and West
and Bristol Water.
* John Pontin is a developer and Chairman of the JT
Group.
* George Ferguson is an architect and the owner/developer
of the Tobacco Factory.
* Colin Green is a Rolls-Royce high-flyer.
* Bob Mckinley: ex-UBHT boss.
* David Robert Somerset, the 11th Duke of Beaufort,
is a landowner, art dealer and master of the largest hunt
in Britain. Now 74, his 52,000-acre Beaufort estate in Gloucestershire
is valued at £80m, and he's worth about £110m
in total. Despite that, he's only the 308= richest man in
Britain, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
* Douglas Claisse worked for Clerical Medical for most
of his life. He rose to become Chairman of Clerical Medical
International before he retired in 1997. From 1995 until 2000
he was Chair of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Initiative
and subsequently its President. He is still on the board of
several financial services firms.
* George McWatters was the founder and ex-chairman
of HTV. He was a director of Bristol And West, and a City
Councillor.
* Peter Durie was awarded an MBE and the George Medal
for army service in the 1940s. He was managing director of
of Courage Western until he retired in 1986. He was also chairman
of Bristol and Western Health Authority, chairman of United
Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust, and a leading light in the Wallace
and Gromit Grand Appeal. He is now one of three extremely
powerful pro-Chancellors at the University of Bristol.
* Francis Greenacre is the ex-curator of fine art at
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
* John Harvey has been a wine merchant since 1961.
He is a director of Harveys of Bristol.
* Alan Tasker is an ex-councillor. He was a JP, master
of the society in 1990 and is a member of St Stephens Ringers.
* Richard Simon Brooks trained as a chartered accountant.
He is Chairman and Managing Director of Brookes Service Group
plc in Aztec West.
* The fantastically-named David Cuthbert Tudway Quilter
was director of Barclays Bank plc from 1971-81 and director
of the Bristol Evening Post from 1982-91. He was vice Lord-Lieutenant
of Somerset from 1978-96, a JP from 1956-62, Mayor Of Wells
and High Sheriff of Somerset in 1974-5. He was master in 1984.
* Gillian Camm, 43, is a director of Clerical Medical
Investment Group and is a governor of the University of the
West of England. The Merchants established UWE, and have long
taken members from Clerical Medical - two serving Merchants
came from the firm.
* Karen Morgan, 58, is also a UWE governor and a director
of Wessex Water, which has given the Merchants three other
members including the firm's controversial chief executive
Colin Skellett. Morgan is also a director of At-Bristol -
she joins two other current board members, and its ex-chairman,
as a Merchant.
There are four honorary members:
* Prince Phillip, who has been a member for 50 years.
* Prince Charles.
* Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, now Lord
Carey of Clifton.
* Margaret Thatcher: until recently, the only woman
member. She has only ever attended one meeting.
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