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Vice Presidents page 1
Vice Presidents page 2
President and Vice Presidents
 
PRESIDENT
 
VICE-PRESIDENTS
 
  Boris Johnson   Lord Armstrong of Ilminste   Simon Jenkins  
  Boris Johnson MP is Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Henley-on-Thames (which includes Dorchester-on-Thames, principal venue for the EMF). A former Editor of The Spectator, he is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and is shadow Minister for Higher Education.   Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO was the Head of the Civil Service from 1983-7. He is the son of the English composer Sir Thomas Armstrong, one of the many lesser-known composers to be championed by the EMF.   Simon Jenkins has a successful career as an author and broadcaster. His most recent publications have been England's 1000 Best Churches and England's 1000 Best Houses. He is a regular correspondent for the Times.  
      Lord Chadlington of Dean   Henry Kelly  
  .   Lord Chadlington of Dean (Peter Gummer) is the Chairman of Huntsworth plc, and was previously founder of Shandwick, which grew to become the world's largest PR company. He sits as a Conservative member of the House of Lords, where he speaks frequently on heritage and the arts.   Henry Kelly is known to all as the presenter of numerous television and radio programmes, particularly at Classic FM, where he worked for 12 years. He can now be heard as the drive-time presenter between 4-7 p.m. on London's main news station LBC 97.3 FM.  
      Paul Guinery   Michael Kennedy  
      Paul Guinery is well-known as a radio presenter, particularly on Radio 3. He is an active member of the Delius Society, of which he has been the Vice-Chairman.   Michael Kennedy CBE is a familiar name as music critic, author, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Music and biographer of Elgar, Mahler and Vaughan Williams.  
      Jeremy Irons      
      Jeremy Irons is an internationally acclaimed and Oscar-winning actor, perhaps best known for his performance as Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, has agreed to become one of the EMF’s Vice-Presidents and will take part in this year's Festival by being the narrator in Vaughan Williams's evocative Oxford Elegy.      
             
             
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