THE GLOVER December 2011 - The Worshipful Company of Glovers

Greg is married to Anne-Marie and they
have two children. He enjoys cooking,
travel, the theatre, driving his classic
Jaguar, keeping fit and playing squash.
Anne-Marie and Greg can often be seen
riding around London on their bright
yellow tandem.
Robin Tilbrook
Robin Tilbrook was educated at Elstree
School, Wellington College and Kent
University. His father was an army
officer in the Queens Royal Irish Hussars
and after school Robin joined the
Brigade Squad in the Coldstream
Guards. He became a solicitor who
specialises in civil litigation with his own
practice, Tilbrook’s and is a past
president of the Mid Essex Law Society.
For many years he has been a volunteer
legal adviser at Epping and Brentwood
Citizens Advice Bureaux.
Robin is married with three children
and has been a churchwarden and
the Chairman of his church’s Parochial
Church Council. He is also the
Chairman of the English Democrats and
a campaigner for devolved English
Parliament. He is “passionate about
England and our rich culture and
heritage of which the City of London
and the Livery companies are shining
examples!”
Sarah Bridge
Sarah Bridge was born in Liverpool but
brought up in North Wales and speaks
fluent Welsh as a result. She returned to
Liverpool to attend University and take
a Mechanical Engineering degree. Sarah
began work at North Safety Limited and
then ten years ago moved to BM Polyco
to become UK Sales Manager. She is
now Deputy Managing Director and
passionate about the importance of
product development. She believes
strongly that Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE) should be designed
and developed with the end user in
mind. She is Marketing Director at the
British Safety Industry Federation and is
a heavy supporter of its Registered
Safety Supplier Scheme that promotes
suppliers of correctly tested and
approved PPE.
Sarah is the proud aunt to six nephews
and nieces. Her interests outside of the
work environment include walking,
gardening, cooking and eating.
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Jonathan Grosvenor
Jonathan Grosvenor was born in Lagos,
Nigeria, where his father was posted as
head of a law firm. He took an Oxford
PPE degree at St Benet’s where he was
Captain of Boats, JCR President and
also played rugby for St Edmund’s Hall
and Corpus Christi College. Jonathan
joined what was then Peat Marwick
Mitchell in the City and qualified as a
chartered accountant. While still with
what had by then become KPMG, he
set up a publishing company and it grew
so rapidly that he had to choose
between the profession and the world of
books. The latter proved irresistible, so
he moved back to Oxford and has been
there ever since, building and selling six
successive businesses.
Along the way, Jonathan served with 21
Artists for eleven years, became a JP,
married and had two children, was
President of Oxford Rotary and joined
the several charity boards. He retains his
City links and is also a Member of
the Chartered Accountants’ Livery
Company, where he is a member of
the Court of Assistants. His hobbies are
his children and family, rowing (Leander
Member), skiing, the theatre and
cinema, travel, and military history.
Alex Finnen
Alex Finnen was born in Kent and
joined the Diplomatic Service in 1970,
just a year after he followed his father
into our affiliated Regiment. After ten
years with the FCO he left to take a
degree at Kingston University and then
spent two years in full-time military
service with 1st British Corps in
Germany. From 1984 to 1993 he
was Political Agent and Constituency
Secretary to Sir Geoffrey Howe
and Sir George Gardiner before
joining Jonathan Grosvenor, another
new member of the Livery, in
various publishing and communications
ventures. He was mobilized for service
in Bosnia in 1995 and after two years
was transferred back to the FCO to work
with the Organization for Security and
Co-Operation in Europe in a number of
posts in the former Yugoslavia. These
included being Director General for
Elections for Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Head of Operations and Deputy
Director of Mission Resources for Bosnia
and Herzegovina with the OSCE
in Sarajevo and finally Deputy Head
of Mission to ‘OSCE Presence in
Albania’ based in Tirana from 2002
to 2009. His PhD on "The International
Community's management of 'Post
Conflict' with reference to Bosnia" was
accepted by Oxford Brooks University in
December 2011.
Alex is currently a “mobilized” Territorial
Army officer, managing a small
analytical and research team within the
Ministry of Defence.
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