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Council Members
Formerly of the Royal Navy and former Chairman of the New Trafalgar Dispatch, 2005.
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The Reverend Lynda Sebbage is The 1805 Club’s Chaplain. She was ordained priest in June 2018 at St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. In August 2020 she moved to her benefice as priest in charge of the Barrow Benefice which is just outside Bury St Edmunds.
The role as Chaplain to The 1805 Club is far reaching, but in the main it is to offer spiritual support and to act in an advisory role when the Club is involved with events that include Christian services.
She has been an active member of The 1805 Club for many years and was Events Officer from 2005 – 2008 responsible for many of the Club’s key events that took place to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Nelson’s death. Lynda is also an active member of her local Rotary Club.
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Lindy is Financial Controller at an establishment in London. She was elected Club Treasurer in late 2008.
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Maritime historian and Club’s North American and Caribbean membership.
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Gillian is a retired Primary school teacher who has always had a keen interest in history, and recently with a particular interest in the Georgian Navy and its aims.
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Alison’s interest in naval history began when she worked as Public Relations Officer at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. A PR and Communications specialist. This is her second term serving as a Council Member for the Club.
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Mark read law at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. For 30 years he was a Chancery barrister, practising in Lincoln’s Inn and specialising in real property and trust law. For 11 years he served on the Committee of the Chancery Bar Association, of which he was Seminar Secretary for 2 years and Treasurer for 4. For 5 years he was a member of the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (formerly the Inns of Court Disciplinary Tribunal)In 2012 he was appointed a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) and was appointed a full-time salaried Judge in 2018 (hearing appeals on points of law from First-tier Tribunals).
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Sue Carr holds a doctorate in history and her historical interests encompass a broad range of subjects and eras, with an especial lay interest in British maritime history from the sixteenth to early twentieth century, and the history of exploration. She is currently the Executive Secretary of the Royal Historical Society. She was previously Treasurer of both the Historical Association Central London Branch and the former Birkbeck College History Society. Whilst her professional engagement is with the academic history community, Sue is a keen advocate of engaging public interest in the past.
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Geraint is interested in the Georgian period from nautical, exploration and scientific perspectives.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Member of the Australian Geographic Society.
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Former Librarian of Lloyd’s of London and Curator of the Lloyd’s Nelson Collection. Closely involved in the 1805 Club’s Trafalgar Captains’ Memorial Project.
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The connection with the 1805 Club is hearing Peter Warwick lecture whilst on a Baltic cruise in 2008. Barry runs the family residential property investment company in East London.
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Peter Turner was a design engineer, but became a cartoonist upon his retirement, which directly led to him joining The 1805 Club, where he has become the latest Editor of The Kedge Anchor and The 1805 Dispatches.‘
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Author of Nelson The Immortal Memory with David Howarth and numerous other books and articles on naval history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Former Registrar, Head of IT and Curator of Art at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, and Manchester City Art Galleries. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
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Genevieve was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. When a small child she asked for a book on Captain Cook, and he has been a hero of hers ever since. She has always loved history especially maritime and she followed her dream to become a history teacher and sail to England. In 1998 she completed a Dip Ed in Industrial Architecture and Archaeology, which highlighted for her just what made our own Royal Navy.
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Mark presently resides in Montreal, Quebec, the home of the first Nelson column in the British Empire. He is originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, which is rich in naval history. He first became interested in all things naval by studying the adventures of Captain James Cook, who had spent three years in Newfoundland using triangulation to map the island. Admiral Horatio Nelson was a frequent visitor to Newfoundland in his pursuits of the French navy.
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Formerly of the Royal Navy and former Chairman of the New Trafalgar Dispatch, 2005.
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Geraint is interested in the Georgian period from nautical, exploration and scientific perspectives.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Member of the Australian Geographic Society.
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The Reverend Lynda Sebbage is The 1805 Club’s Chaplain. She was ordained priest in June 2018 at St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. In August 2020 she moved to her benefice as priest in charge of the Barrow Benefice which is just outside Bury St Edmunds.
The role as Chaplain to The 1805 Club is far reaching, but in the main it is to offer spiritual support and to act in an advisory role when the Club is involved with events that include Christian services.
She has been an active member of The 1805 Club for many years and was Events Officer from 2005 – 2008 responsible for many of the Club’s key events that took place to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Nelson’s death. Lynda is also an active member of her local Rotary Club.
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Former Librarian of Lloyd’s of London and Curator of the Lloyd’s Nelson Collection. Closely involved in the 1805 Club’s Trafalgar Captains’ Memorial Project.
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Lindy is Financial Controller at an establishment in London. She was elected Club Treasurer in late 2008.
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The connection with the 1805 Club is hearing Peter Warwick lecture whilst on a Baltic cruise in 2008. Barry runs the family residential property investment company in East London.
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Maritime historian and Club’s North American and Caribbean membership.
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Peter Turner was a design engineer, but became a cartoonist upon his retirement, which directly led to him joining The 1805 Club, where he has become the latest Editor of The Kedge Anchor and The 1805 Dispatches.‘
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Gillian is a retired Primary school teacher who has always had a keen interest in history, and recently with a particular interest in the Georgian Navy and its aims.
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Author of Nelson The Immortal Memory with David Howarth and numerous other books and articles on naval history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Alison’s interest in naval history began when she worked as Public Relations Officer at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. A PR and Communications specialist. This is her second term serving as a Council Member for the Club.
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Former Registrar, Head of IT and Curator of Art at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, and Manchester City Art Galleries. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
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Mark read law at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. For 30 years he was a Chancery barrister, practising in Lincoln’s Inn and specialising in real property and trust law. For 11 years he served on the Committee of the Chancery Bar Association, of which he was Seminar Secretary for 2 years and Treasurer for 4. For 5 years he was a member of the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (formerly the Inns of Court Disciplinary Tribunal)In 2012 he was appointed a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) and was appointed a full-time salaried Judge in 2018 (hearing appeals on points of law from First-tier Tribunals).
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Genevieve was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. When a small child she asked for a book on Captain Cook, and he has been a hero of hers ever since. She has always loved history especially maritime and she followed her dream to become a history teacher and sail to England. In 1998 she completed a Dip Ed in Industrial Architecture and Archaeology, which highlighted for her just what made our own Royal Navy.
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Sue Carr holds a doctorate in history and her historical interests encompass a broad range of subjects and eras, with an especial lay interest in British maritime history from the sixteenth to early twentieth century, and the history of exploration. She is currently the Executive Secretary of the Royal Historical Society. She was previously Treasurer of both the Historical Association Central London Branch and the former Birkbeck College History Society. Whilst her professional engagement is with the academic history community, Sue is a keen advocate of engaging public interest in the past.
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Mark presently resides in Montreal, Quebec, the home of the first Nelson column in the British Empire. He is originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, which is rich in naval history. He first became interested in all things naval by studying the adventures of Captain James Cook, who had spent three years in Newfoundland using triangulation to map the island. Admiral Horatio Nelson was a frequent visitor to Newfoundland in his pursuits of the French navy.
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