Our Trustees

 Sir Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College,  Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He began his career as a  Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he was then political  columnist and, subsequently, Foreign Editor of the Spectator, and then  chief political columnist of the Daily Telegraph. In 1996 he was a  visiting Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and in 1999 he was a  lecturer at Harvard. He has published books on, among other subjects,  early modern philosophy and the history and culture of the Balkans. 

Christopher Mckane is a retired Times journalist. Born 1946. Educated Marlborough and New  College, Oxford (MA Literae Humaniores). The Oxford Times trainee  sub-editor (1968); The Birmingham Post (1971-74); The Times (1974-86);  The Independent (1986-94 – deputy home editor, picture editor, night  editor); The Times (1994-2011 – night editor, executive editor, deputy  managing editor). Churchwarden St Bride’s Fleet Street 2002-10; Freeman  City of London, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Stationers and Newspaper  Makers (Master 2010-11). Married to Anna, with three daughters and six  grandchildren. Hobbies: beekeeping, allotmenteering, bonsai, sweet  wines, travel, following Saracens RFC. 

 Patrick James is Director of the Landscape Agency, a company he founded  in 1998. It specialises in landscape design, planning and management  across the UK and Europe. Patrick previously worked as policy adviser to  Lord Rothschild during his chairmanship of the National Heritage  Memorial Fund/Heritage Lottery Fund between 1994 – 98.Patrick is also a  Director of Sandby, a development company that promotes good  place-making; projects include the masterplanning of a new town near  York.Patrick has a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture from the University of  London and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Architectural Association. He  co-wrote ‘From Acorn to Oak Tree’ a centenary history of the National  Trust with Dame Jennifer Jenkins. Patrick lives in North Yorkshire and  looks after a garden that has been open to the public via the National  Gardens Scheme since 1947. 

 Annunziata Rees-Mogg is a director at Wild Search, an executive search  and selection firm. Her background is as a financial journalist, having  worked on Sunday Business and been deputy editor of MoneyWeek, the UK’s  largest circulation financial magazine. She has been politically active,  editing the leading eurosceptic magazine the European Journal, and  running for Parliament twice. A former leader writer for the Daily  Telegraph, she has written articles on all subjects from international  relations to ballroom dancing. 

 Jessica Douglas-Home, widow of Charles Douglas-Home, married Rodney  Leach (Lord Leach of Fairford) in 1993. She trained at the Chelsea Art  School and the Slade School of Art. She exhibited her paintings and  etchings in London galleries and in America and Brussels. She designed  sets and costumes at several London theatres including the National  Theatre. She has written 3 books and founded the Mihai Eminescu Trust in  1986 – of which she is Chairman. 

 Is CEO of Clear Public Space Ltd,  a social enterprise. It works together with the Romanian National  Tourist Board (amongst others). Having been a freelance journalist and  making documentary films (for Asahi Beer Europe Ltd and ‘ 19,000 Would do it’ & ‘Nobody Knows’ he now devotes his working time entirely to Clear Public Space Ltd,  while being a trustee of the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust and  the multi-award winning Mihai Eminescu Trust in his free time. He is  married, with 2 children. .

 Tara Douglas-Home is a Senior Management Consultant with IBM UK Ltd  specialising in advising clients in the field of Supply Chain. Prior to  joining IBM he was with PwC Consulting which he joined after 6 years  working for subsidiaries of GEC Plc. Educated at Eton, he has a BA(hons)  in Modern History from the University of East Anglia, during which he  was also a Bursar in the British Army for 4 years. He has a keen  interest in politics and the countryside.