GCT PATRONS

Janet Barber works as an environmental management consultant. She is a Trustee of Forum for the Future and has been a council member of English Nature. She worked for WWF-UK for many years, where she was Director of Programmes, and was a founder member of the government's Darwin Initiative Committee.

Sir James Barlow, Bt. is a graduate engineer from Manchester University, and is now working for Bell Canada. He is a keen ornithologist and conservationist, following in the footsteps of his late father, Sir Thomas Barlow, who was a leading light in the Charles Darwin Foundation, and was also a Vice President of GCT. Sir James is a great great grandson of Charles Darwin.

Angela Darwin is a great granddaughter of Charles Darwin's friend and supporter, Thomas Henry Huxley, while her late husband George was a great grandson of Charles Darwin. For almost 20 years she has been a Magistrate in London sitting in both the Adult and Family Courts. She is currently working on the correspondence between T. H. Huxley and his wife, which is to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Sarah Darwin PhD is an artist and botanist who first visited Galapagos in 1995 to prepare illustrations for a field guide to the islands. More recently she has undertaken a scientific research project on the endemic and introduced Galapagos tomatoes. Sarah is a great great grandchild of Charles Darwin and lives in London, where she is based at the Natural History Museum and University College, London.

Professor Richard Keynes CBE, Sc.D., FRS, is a great grandson of Charles Darwin. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physiology in Cambridge University. He has edited or written the following books about Darwin: The Beagle Record (Cambridge University Press, 1979); Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (Cambridge University Press, 1988); Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Fossils, Finches and Fuegians. Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836. (Harper Collins, 2002).

Dorothy Latsis has lived in Geneva since 1979. She is President of the Fondation Philanthropique Orthodoxe and has established charities to support conservation of the library of St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. She is a board member of the International School of Geneva.

Godfrey Merlen is British and has lived in Galapagos for more than 25 years. He has worked as a naturalist guide, as a facilitator for visiting scientists, as a delivery skipper of boats for the Charles Darwin Research Station, and much else besides. He is a skilled artist, and has illustrated a field guide to the fishes of the islands. In 1999 the Charles Darwin Foundation published his account of the decline and recovery of the Galapagos giant tortoises.

Professor Ian Swingland OBE, PhD DSc is Emeritus Professor of Conservation Biology at Kent University and Founder of The Durrell Institute. He has studied tthe giant tortoises of Aldabra for many years. He holds Visiting Chairs around the world, is a Trustee of Earthwatch and Durrell Wildlife, and is a director of Sustainable Forestry Management, London. He has been deeply involved in China for the last few years and is the longest serving member of the government's Darwin Initiative Advisory Committee.

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