Mark Bridges (Chairman)

Mark is a Partner of Farrer & Co; Solicitor to the Duchy of Lancaster; Private Solicitor to HM The Queen. He is a Governor of Sherborne School for Girls and of the Purcell School; a Trustee of the University College London Hospitals Charity and Chairman of Music in Country Churches. He is also a Trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and a member of the Court of Assistants of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Mark’s three daughters went to Hanford and his wife teaches Latin at Hanford.

Louise Ansdell

Following very happy school days at Hanford (née Potter), Louise went on to Bryanston and then Oxford High School. From there she went to New College Oxford where she read Classics and English (which she believes is a direct consequence of the teaching received at Hanford). She is a practising barrister at Harcourt Chambers in London and Oxford and a governor of Oxford High School. Louise is married with two children.

Diana Berry

A former senior director of Sotheby's where she worked for over twenty years, Diana was also Chairman of Sotheby's Institute 1998-2002. Head of Fundraising at Conservative Party Headquarters 2004-2008, she now works with the charity The New Schools Network. Diana is a former trustee of the Holburne Museum Bath, is currently a Council member of the Attingham Trust and chair of the Foundation Development Committee of the new Chelsea Academy. Other former heritage roles include exhibition consultant to the National Heritage Memorial Fund and consultant to Eton College Collections 1977-1986, including setting up the Museum of Eton Life (opened 1985). As a liveryman, she is a trustee of the Charitable Trust of the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers and has recently joined the Court as Steward. She has a son and a daughter.

Sue Birkill

Admissions Registrar at Bryanston since 1987, Sue has two children. Her daughter, Polly, went to Hanford and is currently Head of Pre-Prep at The Banda School in Kenya and her son, Tom, teaches at Marlborough College. Sue is also on the Hanford Marketing Committee.

Clare Flawn-Thomas

Clare grew up in Dorset, yet pleaded to board at Hanford as early as possible. After A-levels at Sherborne Girls she went straight to 10 Downing Street where she worked in Lady Thatcher's political office and then in her ‘out of office’ office as diary secretary until 1994. Clare now runs a publishing company which produces a series of Baby Directories and London children's guides. Clare is on the Marketing Committee, is an Old Girl (née Lowther) and has a daughter at Hanford.

Emma Hattersley

Currently Deputy Head Pastoral at Sherborne Girls, Emma was previously a housemistress at Canford School. She studied music at Durham University and sent on to train as an opera singer at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Alongside her teaching she is also an Associated Board music examiner. Emma has two sons and a daughter, two of whom are currently at university.

Jon Phillips

Jon recently retired as headmaster of Horris Hill prep school in Newbury and before that was headmaster of The Old Malthouse in Dorset for fifteen years. Several families have children at Hanford and Horris Hill and each year the top years have a get together after Common Entrance, which has maintained positive links for both the schools and children. Jon is Chairman of the Education Committee.

Lucinda Sunnucks

After school at St Paul's and reading Economics at University in London, Lucinda became a food retail analyst at the City stockbroking firm Galloway and Pearson. This led to managing investor relations at the retail group Storehouse until, in 1996, she moved to Dorset. Since then she has concentrated on bringing up her three daughters all of whom went to Hanford. Lucinda teaches bridge, is involved in the local prison and is on the Dorset Committee of Combat Stress.