The Anthony Powell Society
Officers and Executive Committee

Non-Executive Officers
Patron John Powell (Somerset)		John Powell is the younger son of Anthony and Lady Violet Powell. He has taken a keen interest in the Society since its inception and provided valuable assistance in the early days of the Society, especially with the planning of the 2001 conference. Both John and his elder brother Tristram are keen to ensure that the memory and work of both their parents lives on.
President Simon Russell Beale		Simon Russell Beale is one the most accomplished actors of his generation. He has made his strongest mark on the stage (including several seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company) and done much fine work in television bringing great subtlety, wit and intelligence to his dialogue. Members of the Society will need no reminding of his pivotal portrayal of Kenneth Widmerpool in the 1997 Channel 4 TV adaptation of Dance.
Hon. Vice-President Julian Allason (Oxfordshire)		Julian Allason is a pyschologist practising cognitive psychotherapy in London. To retain his own sanity he writes about travel to remote destinations for the Financial Times magazine. He is the author of several books on technology, and is married to a Cambridge historian. Julian was instrumental in the establishment of the Society and provides media and PR advice.

Executive Officers **
Chairman Dr Christine Berberich (Derbyshire)		Dr Christine Berberich is Lecturer in 19th and 20th century English and European Literature at the University of Derby. In 2004 she successfully completed her PhD on "Englishness, Nostalgia and the Image of the English Gentleman in 20th Century Literature" (which had Anthony Powell as one of its core authors) at the University of York where she also worked as Managing Editor for the American journal Modernism / Modernity. Her previous publications include book chapters and articles on Powell, Sassoon, Orwell, Barnes, Sebald and Englishness. Her book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature was published by Ashgate in December 2007. She is currently working with Prof. Arthur Aughey (of the University of Ulster) on a new book on Englishness.
Hon. Secretary Dr Keith Marshall (Middlesex) secretary@ anthonypowell.org		Keith Marshall was born in London in 1951 and educated at the Universities of York and East Anglia. Since completing his doctorate in Chemistry (in 1976), he has worked in the computing industry doing everything from technical sales to project management. Having been introduced to Dance in the early-1980s, Keith was the creator of the Anthony Powell Resources website and the AP e-mail discussion list in the mid-1990s; these became the foundation for the Society. Keith and Noreen live in an unfashionable area of west London with their two cats. Keith's other main interest is in trying to find time for fishkeeping, genealogy and early music.
Hon. Treasurer Dr Derek Miles (Kent)		Dr Derek Miles is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Management Institute, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and a Freeman of the City of London. He is also the author or co-author of 17 books on technical and management topics. He was introduced to the novels of Anthony Powell in the mid 1960s and has been reading and re-reading them ever since, never without gaining new insights.

Executive Committee Members **
Dr Nicholas Birns (New York)		Nicholas Birns is Lecturer in English at New School University in New York City (located near the fictional site of Quentin Shuckerly's demise in Hearing Secret Harmonies). He received his BA from Columbia University in 1988 and his PhD from New York University in 1992. He has published over twenty scholarly articles and has also written for general-interest periodicals such as The New York Times Book Review and National Forum. He serves in a number of positions on US academic committees and editorial boards, and has also lectured abroad in Australia and Sweden. His book Understanding Anthony Powell was published by University of South Carolina Press in 2004.
Stephen Holden (London)		I had a nomadic childhood due to my father’s job, moving towns every two or three years. Until I was 16 I lived all over Nigeria, and then in Paris, Lyon and Vienna. I went to boarding school in England, and subsequently university at Exeter and the University of California at Davis, where I read American & Commonwealth Arts. After leaving university I eventually moved to London and worked for the Civil Aviation Authority, ordering nuts and bolts for radar scanners and de-icing fluid for runways in the Shetlands. This soon palled and I moved into university administration, working for 'old' and 'new' universities, ending up at the University of Arts London. I do a bit of freelance journalism on a ragbag of topics. I am also "etiquette correspondent" (at present seconded as "war correspondent") for The Chap, a parody of gentlemen's magazines of the 1920s. I first read AP out of the British Council library in Paris when I was 18, and have been re-reading him ever since.
Jeffrey Manley (Maryland, USA)		Jeff Manley is a lawyer living in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, DC. Having retired as a partner from the firm of WilmerHale LLP, he now works as a senior advisor to United Airlines. He received his AB in 1963 and AM and LLB degrees in 1968, all from Harvard University. He began reading Powell's works in 1976. In addition to articles in the AP Society Newsletter and journal, Secret Harmonies, he has also published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and the Newsletter of the Henry Williamson Society as well as legal journals. He has been an active participant in the APLIST since January 2000 and joined the AP Society when it was formed later that same year. He is the editor of a Guide to Musical References in 'A Dance to the Music of Time' which is currently being prepared for publication by the Society.
Tony Robinson (Suffolk)		Tony Robinson was born in Gloucestershire in 1944, just outside the walls of Berkeley Castle. His father was an aircraft engineer for the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton, where the family later made their home. Educated at Bristol Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford he graduated in Modern History, and Economics and Political Science. His career has been principally in local government from which he escaped as Director of Corporate Planning in 1996. Since then he has pursued interests in international education, a small town in Germany and the UK health service. He is currently Chairman of the Suffolk Coastal NHS Primary Healthcare Care Trust. Tony lives in coastal Suffolk with his wife. Apart from involvement with the Anthony Powell Society his other interests are walking, swimming and rearing frogs.
Elwin Taylor (Kent)		Elwin Taylor was educated at Wellington College and King’s College, London, where he read history. He has worked as a shipbroker in London and in Singapore, and is now a commodity trader, based in the UK. He is married with 2 children and lives in Tunbridge Wells. He was introduced early to the work of AP and remembers waiting impatiently for Hearing Secret Harmonies to come out.

Other (Non-Executive) Officers
Newsletter and Secret Harmonies Editor Stephen Holden newsletter@ anthonypowell.org		See above.
Hon. Archivist Noreen Marshall		Noreen Marshall was born in Suffolk in 1951, and educated at the University of East Anglia. She has been a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum since 1974, and is currently Curator of the Children's Dress & Nursery Collections at the V&A Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, London: every day something different, from origins of nursery rhymes to Victorian underwear! One of the founding members of the Anthony Powell Society, she is also its archivist. She lives in West London with her husband (the Society's Secretary) and two cats, and her interests include genealogy, early music, the Internet and collecting children's books.
Public Relations & Media Advisor Julian Allason		See above.
Webmaster Dr Keith Marshall webmaster@ anthonypowell.org		See above.

** The Executive Officers and Executive Committee Members together form the Society's Executive Committee and are the Society's Trustees.