Boards of Directors and Governors
Day-to-day responsibility for the governance of the school lies with the Board of Governors whilst the Chair of the Board of Directors, Mr Timothy Fisher, holds ultimate responsibility. For further information about the management and governance of Perrott Hill, please click here. All Governors can be contacted via the Clerk to the Governors, Mr William Robertson, at the school address. Please clearly mark all correspondence ‘Governors’ Business’.
Timothy Fisher (Chair of Directors)
Tim’s professional background is in finance & banking. He read undergraduate and postgraduate engineering degrees at Imperial College, London where he attained both prize-winning first class and distinctions. Tim was also awarded full sports colours whilst at university and is the current Chairman of Coventry City FC.
Paul Brewster (Chair of Governors)
He has also served as the Principal of an International School in Prague, the CEO of Repton International Schools Ltd and has been a Reporting Inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate. Now retired, Paul spent the 2017-18 academic year working as an Educational Consultant here at Perrott Hill and, as such, brings with him a unique insight and understanding of the school.
Role as Governor: Chair of Governors, Chair of the Development Committee, Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee and Early Years Lead.
Jeremy Blackburn
Jeremy attended Perrott Hill between 1969-1975 before going on to Sherborne School. His children, Harry and Emma, also attended Perrott Hill in the late 1990s before the family moved to Hampshire. He grew up in the West Country and recently set up home outside Crewkerne with his wife, Lucy. He has a passion for sport having played rugby, hockey and cricket to county level at a younger age. He now sticks to playing golf at Cricket St Thomas and also runs the Wessex Racing Club, with National Hunt horses trained locally (one with Jack Barber – also an OPH!).
Role as Governor: Chair of the Marketing and Admissions Committee, Health and Safety Lead.
Jennifer Boulter
Jenny left London in 2012 to move to the South West and in 2016 left KPMG to set up a landscaping business which does a mixture of commercial grounds maintenance and domestic projects. Jenny lives in Somerset with her husband and two sons.
Role as Governor: Chair of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, Member of the Parent Liaison Group (current parent).
Richard King
He qualified as a solicitor in London and moved to West Dorset in 1984, where he is currently a partner with Kitson & Trotman. Married to Ros, with two children, James and Georgina, who both attended Perrott Hill, he was appointed as a governor in 2008.
Role as Governor: Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.
Justin Lowe MRICS
Based in South Somerset, he advises farmers and landowners throughout the south west in the sale and purchase of agricultural and residential property. Justin lives with his wife Julia and three children near Perrott Hill. All three of his children attended Perrott Hill, obtaining scholarships in art, sport and drama. Justin maintains an active interest in sport both at school and local clubs.
Role as Governor: Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.
Dr Kathryn Latham
She has had various hospital jobs in Cheltenham, Yeovil and Dorchester as well as a research post investigating heart failure in the community. A medical officer at Sherborne Boys School since 2009, Kathryn has three children who have been, or are still currently, at Perrott Hill, with her eldest attending the school right from the Montessori through to Year 8.
Role as Governor: Safeguarding Lead and Member of the Education and Pastoral Committee.
Dr Dominic Luckett
He then taught for eleven years at Harrow School, where he was Head of History and an assistant housemaster, before moving to Worth School as Deputy Head. In 2007, he was appointed Headmaster of Mill Hill and Chief Executive of the Mill Hill School Foundation comprising the senior, prep, pre-prep and international schools. He has published various articles on early Tudor history, is an inspector with the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate and a member of the Council of the University of Leicester, the university’s governing body.
Role as Governor: Member of the Education and Pastoral Committee.
Richard Redwood
Richard read Law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He went onto qualify as a teacher at Canterbury Christ Church University and has spent eighteen years teaching in schools in London, Leeds and Dorset.
He is an Assistant Headteacher at Canford School with responsibility for Safeguarding, EDI and Personal Development. He teaches English at GCSE and A level and works for both OCR and Pearson. In his spare time he enjoys writing poetry and articles for English publications.
Role as Governor: Member of the Education and Pastoral Committee.
Andrew Vickery
Andrew lives on the family farm with his wife Anna, a school Bursar, and their two young children who both attend Perrott Hill.
Role as Governor: Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee (current parent).
Vivienne Wells
Vivienne brings a wealth of experience with her, not least in the area of admissions and international recruitment, having spent 17 years as Registrar and Headmaster’s Wife at Junior King’s Canterbury, and then Head of Overseas Recruitment at King’s Bruton. Prior to that, she worked in multiple schools, including Dulwich College, Dulwich Village Infants’ School and Liverpool College Prep. Vivienne grew up near Ilminster and is delighted to be back in the West Country.
Role as Governor: Chair of the Education and Pastoral Committee, Member of the Marketing and Admissions Committee, and Boarding Lead.