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Future Speakers...
(& for more about each Speaker, click their photo...)
2011
| Wednesday
14th
December 2011 |
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Dom Anthony Sutch
- Benedictine Monk
...is a former Headmaster of the well-known Downside School. Having resigned his
post he retired from education to become a parish priest in Beccles, Suffolk.
Noted for his opinions on a wide-ranging variety of subjects, he is in constant
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2012...
| Tuesday
6th March 2012 |
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Jonathan Aitken
- former Politician
Born in 1942, he is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United
Kingdom, and British government minister. Convicted of perjury in 1999 he
received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He is
currently president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
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| Wednesday 16th
May 2012 |
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Lord Triesman -
Politician
Born in 1943, Baron David Maxim Triesman is a former Chairman of the Football
Association, a British politician, a Labour member of the House of Lords and
previously a minister at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
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Wednesday 10th
October 2012
Speaker to be announced.
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| Wednesday 12th
December 2012 |
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Prue Leith CBE
- Restaurateur,
caterer, TV cook, broadcaster and cookery writer.
...was born
in South Africa & has spent her working life mostly in London.
In
1960, Prue started a business supplying quality business lunches, which grew to
become Leith’s Good Food Limited, with a turnover of £15m in 1995. In 1969, she
opened Leith’s, her famous Michelin starred restaurant. In 1975 she founded 'Leiths
School of Food and Wine' which trains amateur and professional chefs. She has
been a cookery editor and food columnist for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, The
Guardian and The Mirror; and currently holds non-executive directorships at
Whitbread plc. She chairs The Hoxton Apprentice and 3Es Enterprises, and is also
Chair of the Board of Governors of Ashridge Management College. As well as many
cookery books, including Leith's Cookery Bible, she has written four novels,
'Leaving Patrick', 'Sisters', 'A Lovesome Thing', & 'Choral Society'.
She
has received many honours, including the Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the
Year in 1990, & seven honorary degrees or fellowships from UK universities. She
was appointed OBE in 1989 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
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