Dame Mary Fagan – Patron
Dame Mary Fagan DCVO was appointed Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire in January 1994 and is The Queen’s representative in the County and is responsible for arrangements made for Royal Visits to the County.

Born at Gonalston Hall, Nottinghamshire on 11 September 1939, Dame Mary Fagan is married to Captain Christopher Fagan and they have lived for over 40 years in Hampshire.

Dame Mary Fagan is an Honorary Commodore in the Royal Naval Reserve, Honorary Colonel 457 Battery RA, Chancellor of the University of Winchester, Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Magistrates and Honorary Colonel Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Volunteers) 4th Division.

The Lord-Lieutenant was made a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by The Queen in the Birthday Honours list announced on 13th June 2009.

Vice Patrons

 

Clive Bowring
Clive Bowring was born in London in 1937. After Rugby School and National Service in the Royal Navy, during which he reached the rank of Lieutenant R.N.R., he was given the opportunity of either University or travel. He chose the latter and lived in Sydney for the following 18 months. On returning to the UK he joined the family firm of C.T.Bowring and Co. Limited based in the City of London. On its takeover in 1980 he and a cousin left to form a new insurance brokerage house which still continues to prosper.

His love of the New Forest started when he was a boy and when he and his sister were brought on holiday to the area by his parents. In 1987 they purchased a derelict cottage in Fritham and over the next few years undertook the renovation work of the cottage and its outbuildings. Nowadays they own various properties including a farm from which as Commoners they turn out animals on the Forest, and the traditional and well known Public House, the Royal Oak.

Alan Titchmarsh MBE DL

The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury DL
Lord Malmesbury is a farmer and landowner in Hampshire and Dorset and has extensive interests in rural matters, which have included chairmanships of Sparsholt College, Committee for Rural Hampshire, Fleet and District Beekeepers Association and Greywell Parish Council, where he lives. He was President of the New Forest Show in 2004 and is a member of its Policy and Management Committee.


Leopold de Rothschild Esq. CBE

Leopold de Rothschild’s career has been in the City, with the banking firm N.M. Rothschild; his interests include music and industrial archaeology.  He chairs Exbury Gardens Limited, the charitable company responsible for running Exbury Gardens, famous for its azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and the 1 1/4 mile steam railway.
The Rothschild family has had a long-standing and historic presence in the New Forest both as local landowners and as pioneers of tourism creating
one of the nation’s leading horticultural attractions.

Mrs Ailsa Montagu

Ailsa Montagu lives in the New Forest with her husband, the Hon. Ralph Montagu, in Beaulieu, home to the National Motor Museum.

After graduating from Oxford University she worked as a linguist and translator in Brussels and London. A keen archivist and historian, she is also  Patron of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.

 

Michael Campbell MBE DL