On this page is some information about the board of
trustees of the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust:
Professor Richard Chandler
Dr Jim Flegg OBE
Robert Gillmor
Robert Gillmor started his long career as an illustrator at the age of 15 with drawings for the monthly British Birds Magazine. He illustrated the first of over 100 books in 1958 while an art student at Reading University. In the late fifties, with the support of leading bird artists of the day, he organised Exhibition by Contemporary Bird Painters, and this led directly to the founding in 1964 of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Robert became the Society’s first Secretary and was later elected to two terms as President. He and his wife Sue, also an artist, moved to north Norfolk in 1998, and book illustrating was abandoned in favour of printmaking.
David Hosking FRPS
David is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has been an examiner on the RPS Associateship and Fellowship Assessment Nature Panel. He is also a Vice President of the British Naturalists Association; founded in 1905 the BNA promotes the study of all branches of Natural History. A director of Hosking Tours Ltd, specialising in wildlife photographic Holidays. With his wife Jean he is also a director of FLPA Ltd, an extensive and rapidly expanding web based photographic stock library, specialising in Natural History. His photographs have appeared in a vast range of magazines and books, including over twenty which were the product of his happy and prolific partnership with his late father Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS.
Robin Hosking
Robin is a retired Design & Technology teacher with 35 years experience. He taught for most of his career at North Leamington School in Warwickshire where he was Head of Department and also Year Head. He was also very involved in national examinations holding the positions of O’level Chief Examiner for 6 years and GCSE Principal Moderator for 15 years. He now lives in Spain and travels extensively around Europe with his wife Julie.
Edward Keeble MA (cantab)
Derek Moore OBE
Ornithologist, Nature Conservationist - writer, speaker and broadcaster. Spent a career as CEO in The Wildlife Trusts now retired but still involved in a number of projects. Chairman of the Welsh Ornithological Society. Still enjoys worldwide travelling and recording the experience with camera and words.
Paul Williams MA (Cantab)
Paul Williams, a qualified Chartered Accountant, looks after the Trust’s financial affairs. Finance Director of an Aim Company, Paul is also a bird ringer and for a number of years was Eric’s accountant.
Martin Withers FRPS
Martin Withers FRPS. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society he is a past Chairman of the RPS Associateship & Fellowship Assessment Nature Panel and past Vice-Chairman of the RPS Nature Group. A director of Hosking Tours, Martin has travelled widely in British Isles, Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Falkland Islands. In 1985 and 1996 he was awarded an Exhibition Gold Medal by the Royal Photographic Society Nature Group and is the holder of a Nature Group Silver Medal, given for services to fellow wildlife photographers of the RPS.
Professor Richard Chandler
Dr Jim Flegg OBE
Robert Gillmor
Robert Gillmor started his long career as an illustrator at the age of 15 with drawings for the monthly British Birds Magazine. He illustrated the first of over 100 books in 1958 while an art student at Reading University. In the late fifties, with the support of leading bird artists of the day, he organised Exhibition by Contemporary Bird Painters, and this led directly to the founding in 1964 of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Robert became the Society’s first Secretary and was later elected to two terms as President. He and his wife Sue, also an artist, moved to north Norfolk in 1998, and book illustrating was abandoned in favour of printmaking.
David Hosking FRPS
David is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has been an examiner on the RPS Associateship and Fellowship Assessment Nature Panel. He is also a Vice President of the British Naturalists Association; founded in 1905 the BNA promotes the study of all branches of Natural History. A director of Hosking Tours Ltd, specialising in wildlife photographic Holidays. With his wife Jean he is also a director of FLPA Ltd, an extensive and rapidly expanding web based photographic stock library, specialising in Natural History. His photographs have appeared in a vast range of magazines and books, including over twenty which were the product of his happy and prolific partnership with his late father Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS.
Robin Hosking
Robin is a retired Design & Technology teacher with 35 years experience. He taught for most of his career at North Leamington School in Warwickshire where he was Head of Department and also Year Head. He was also very involved in national examinations holding the positions of O’level Chief Examiner for 6 years and GCSE Principal Moderator for 15 years. He now lives in Spain and travels extensively around Europe with his wife Julie.
Edward Keeble MA (cantab)
Derek Moore OBE
Ornithologist, Nature Conservationist - writer, speaker and broadcaster. Spent a career as CEO in The Wildlife Trusts now retired but still involved in a number of projects. Chairman of the Welsh Ornithological Society. Still enjoys worldwide travelling and recording the experience with camera and words.
Paul Williams MA (Cantab)
Paul Williams, a qualified Chartered Accountant, looks after the Trust’s financial affairs. Finance Director of an Aim Company, Paul is also a bird ringer and for a number of years was Eric’s accountant.
Martin Withers FRPS
Martin Withers FRPS. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society he is a past Chairman of the RPS Associateship & Fellowship Assessment Nature Panel and past Vice-Chairman of the RPS Nature Group. A director of Hosking Tours, Martin has travelled widely in British Isles, Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Falkland Islands. In 1985 and 1996 he was awarded an Exhibition Gold Medal by the Royal Photographic Society Nature Group and is the holder of a Nature Group Silver Medal, given for services to fellow wildlife photographers of the RPS.
