LOUELLA HANBURY-TENISON  (nee Williams)

Born: 25 June 1951   

Educated: Glendower, Sydenham; St. George’s, Windsor; Wycombe Abbey;

Constance Spry Finishing School; Oxford & County Secretarial College.

Married:      (1976) Michael Edwards.  2 sons: Harry (29), Peter (26)   &    (1983) Robin Hanbury-Tenison.  1 son: Merlin (22)

Career:

1969        Secretary to Robin & Marika Hanbury-Tenison

1970-71   Secretary in Peter Jones’s Brides’ Book, House of Commons. Personal secretary to Private Secretary

                Speaker Selwyn Lloyd and then to theClerk Assistant to the House of Commons 1971-83.

1984-86  Governor of Doubletrees School, Friend of St. Lawrence’s Hospital

1985-89  S.W. Patron of Osteoporosis Society

1996-01   Patron of Miracle Theatre, Raised significant funds for: Duchy Opera Society; Miracle Theatre; NSPCC, Survival International;
                World Wildlife Fund; Riding for the Disabled; the Confraternity of St. James;  Red Cross; Cardinham Church; Temple Church,
                Home Farm Trust; Sunrise Appeal; Cornwall Community Foundation; The Merlin Project and Motor Neurone Disease Association.

1999 -      Runs Bed and Breakfast at Cabilla Manor (www.cabilla.co.uk)
                Craft and cookery classes
                Has made over 60 handmade quilts

2006-07   High Sheriff of Cornwall

Travels:

1969        Round the world.

1984        Rode Camargue horse 1200 miles across France back to Cornwall

                Joined RGS Maraca expedition in Brazil

                Rode 1,000 miles along Great Wall of China

1988        Rode 800 miles from South to North through New Zealand

                Rode 500 miles as a pilgrim to Santiago de Campostela

                Joined mission to seven East European countries

                Rode 300 miles across Spain driving 300 cattle on the transhumancia

1994        Delivered a Landrover for Survival Int. to Udege people of Ussuria

                Rode the 300 mile route of the proposed Pennine Bridleway

1995        Visited tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh in N.E.India

1997        Stayed with Innu people at Lake Kamistastin, Labrador

                Visited Mulu, Sarawak to make a film for Channel 4

                Rode by camel through Tenere Desert, accompanied by Tuareg

2005:      Visited all remaining Bushman groups in Central Kalahari.

2006:      Penetrated the Kimberley region of NW Australia seeking prehistoric art.