Category: DL

Dr Jonathan Nainby-Luxmoore DL

Jonathan has lifelong connections with the Island, being baptised and married in Bembridge, where his family always retained a home.
After studying Medicine at Lincoln College, Oxford and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, he served eleven years, worldwide, in the Royal Army Medical Corps including Gulf War 1.
For twenty eight rewarding years he was a ’traditional’ GP and GP Trainer in a very rural isolated two partner practice based on Middleton-in-Teesdale, Co Durham. The area was the same size as the Isle of Wight but atop the Pennines. Responding to an epidemic of suicides in 1991, he was involved with establishing the charity “UTASS” to support the isolated farming and village community, serving as chair for ten years and resigning in 2021. He was a trustee of St Teresa’s Hospice, Darlington for seven
years, and a trustee of “AVF Launchpad”, a national charity that provides accommodation and support to help veterans make a successful transition from military to civilian life.

Jonathan is currently chair of Newport Grammar School Charity and Worsley’s Almshouses.  His interests include his dogs, sailing, gardening and all rural pursuits.

Jonathan married Sarah in 2015 and has three adult sons.

Mrs Anne Longford DL

Mrs Longford has three sons and four grandchildren.
She is retired with a nursing background and was a Trustee of the WI both locally and nationally for over forty years and recently served two terms of ten years as County Chairman.  She is currently a Trustee of Carisbrooke Castle Museum Trust.

Mrs Claire Locke DL

Mrs Locke’s background is in business and enterprise and in 2016 she won The Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion.
A former High Sheriff of the Island she is now active in The Prince’s Trust Enterprise Fellowship and is a Trustee of various foundations including the 1851 Marine Trust in Portsmouth.

Mrs Dawn Haig-Thomas

Mrs Haig-Thomas has lived in Whippingham on the Isle of Wight since 2012.  She read Politics and History at Manchester University before starting her career in management consultancy.  After living and working in India, she moved into international development before stepping back to raise her children on the Isle of Wight.  Since arriving on the Island, Dawn has served as Vice Chair of the Board of UKSA (a sailing charity), Vice Chair of CPRE (the Countryside Charity) and as a Governor to Ryde School.

A former High Sheriff for the Isle of Wight, Dawn has retained her shrieval focus on improving childhood literacy.   She is the Schoolreaders Lead for the Island, reads in her local primary school weekly, and leads the Childrens’ Programme for the Literary Festival. She is also a Trustee of the Daisie Rich Trust.

Dawn is married to Alex and they have three teenage children.

Gill Kennett MBE DL

Gill’s working career was in the NHS where she worked as a nurse, a midwife and an Associate Director. Gill is Chairman of Carisbrooke Castle Museum Trust and West Wight Sports and Community Centre Trust, and a non – executive director of Two Saints, a not for profit Housing Association providing accommodation, help and support to homeless people across the South of England.
Gill is a Freshwater Parish Councilor and her family have been based in the West Wight for several generations.

Dr Nick England DL

After studying physics at Oxford, Dr England taught at Wellington College where he became head of department and a housemaster. Following Wellington he became Headmaster of Ryde School for 16 years. Dr England is an experienced school governor, having been Chair of the Education Committee at King Edward’s Southampton and Chair of Governors at the Isle of Wight College. He spent 20 years as a school inspector alongside his other duties as a headteacher and governor. Dr England has written numerous physics textbooks for GCSE and A level courses.  Dr England is one of the Island’s local assessors for the King’s Award for Voluntary Service.

He is a trustee of the charity Aspire Ryde.

Mrs Mary Case DL

Mrs Mary Case was born and brought up on the Island. Apart from 3 years in London, she has lived and worked on the Island all her life.
She has been member of the Isle of Wight beekeepers Association since 1984, during that time she has been hon. Secretary, committee member and president. Her beekeeping hobby grew into a business, she is now a bee farmer. Mary is a founder member of the Island Farmer’s Market and at present is Treasurer and co-ordinator. A former High Sheriff, she recently became President of the Community Action IW Awards
Mary is married to Geoff, a farmer, they have two grown up children.