Thursday 10 July 2008 afternoon ceremony
Sir David Brewer
Jonathan Dimbleby
Sir David Brewer (LLD)
Sir David is best known as
the Lord Mayor of the City
of London in 2005-2006.
He grew up in
Hampstead, went to St
Paul’s School, and now
lives in Westminster.
He started his career in
insurance in 1959 with
Sedgwick and, in 1976, he
went to Tokyo to open
the Sedgwick Group’s
Japan office, living there for
three years. He set up the
Group office in China in 1981 and obtained the first broker’s
authorisation for Sedgwick in 1993. He opened their
representative office in Mumbai in 1986 and has travelled
regularly in Asia and, in particular, to China, which he has
visited over 100 times. He is Non-Executive Vice-Chairman of
Marsh Limited, the company which bought Sedgwick.
Sir David is Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council,
and a Vice President of the Great Britain-China Centre. He is a
member of the Court of Assistants of the Merchant Taylors’
Company; also a member of the Court of Assistants of the
Blacksmiths’ Company; and of the Insurers’ Company; an
Honorary Liveryman of the most recently formed (No 108)
Worshipful Company of Security Professionals; a member of
the Parish Clerks’ Company; an Honorary Master of the
Bench of Gray’s Inn; a Treasurer of the Sons of the Clergy; and
a Governor of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. He is President of the London Cornish
Association.
Sir David is a member of the London Symphony Orchestra
Advisory Council, and a Director of the City of London
Sinfonia. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Greater
London in April 2008. He is married to Tessa and has two
daughters, Olivia and Gabriella. For recreation he enjoys music
(especially opera and choral music), mechanical gardening,
chocolate and paronomasia.
Listen to Sir David Brewer’s speech here.
Jonathan Dimbleby (LLD)
Jonathan Dimbleby was
born in 1944. He was
educated at Charterhouse
School and at University
College London where he
read Philosophy and
where he is a Fellow.
Jonathan is a writer,
broadcaster and filmmaker.
As a reporter for
ITV’s This Week programme he covered
crises, conflicts and
disasters in more than 80
countries. In 1973 he won BAFTA’s Richard Dimbleby Award
for his coverage of the famine in Ethiopia.
He was the first presenter of BBC’s On The Record from 1987
to 1992. He presented ITV’s flagship weekly political
programme, Jonathan Dimbleby from 1995 until May 2006.
He has presented Any Questions? and Any Answers? for BBC
Radio 4 since 1987. He was ITV’s anchorman for the 1997,
2001 and 2005 general elections.
In 1994 he wrote, presented and co-produced Charles, The
Private Man, the Public Role for ITV. In 1997 his five-part
documentary series, The Last Governor, about the final years
of British rule in Hong Kong, was screened by BBC 1. His
documentaries about Ethiopia and Kosovo were shown by
the ITV network in 1998 and 2000 respectively. His threepart
series The New World War – about terrorism, poverty
and the environment – was broadcast by ITV in 2004. In
2008 his five-part series Russia – A Journey with Jonathan
Dimbleby was broadcast by BBC2.
Jonathan’s publications include Richard Dimbleby (1975), The
Palestinians (1979), The Prince of Wales (1994), The Last
Governor (1997) and Russia – A Journey to the Heart of a Land
and its People (2008).
Among his charitable commitments he has been President of
the Soil Association (1996 – 2008) and President of Voluntary
Service Overseas (VSO) (1997 – present), Chairman of Index
and Censorship (2004 –present), Chairman of the Susan
Chilcott Scholarship and a Trustee of Dimbleby Cancer Care.
Listen to Jonathan Dimbleby’s speech here.
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