Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter KCVO (born 11 October 1939) is a son of Francis Henry Boyd-Carpenter by his wife Nina (née Townshend). Nina Boyd-Carpenter's sister was the gardener and writer Margery Fish; Henry Boyd-Carpenter inherited his aunt's house and garden at East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, selling it in 1985. [1] [2]
He was educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford ( BA 1962; MA 1967) before being admitted a solicitor in 1966. [3]
In 1971 he married Lesley Ann Davies; they have a son, William, and a daughter, Alexandra Boyd-Carpenter. Sir Henry and Lady Boyd-Carpenter now live near Monmouth.
Boyd-Carpenter was Solicitor to the Duchy of Cornwall from 1974–94 and a Partner (later Managing Partner) of Farrer & Co, [4] Solicitors from 1968. He served as Private Solicitor to HM The Queen from 1995 until 2002. [5]
He was appointed CVO in 1994 before being knighted in 2004, as too was his great grandfather William Boyd Carpenter ( KCVO), Bishop of Ripon from 1884 to 1911 and court chaplain to Queen Victoria. [6]
Boyd-Carpenter's other memberships include: Law Society of England and Wales (1966); Council of The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture (1995); Board of the British Library (1999); Honorary Steward Westminster Abbey (1980); Hon. Legal Advisor to the Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund (1994); Member of the Governing Body Charterhouse (1981); Governor Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse (1994); St Mary’s School, Gerrards Cross (1967–1970); Council of Chelsea Physic Garden (1983); Trustee National Gardens Scheme (1998); and Merlin Trust [7] (1998).
References
- ^ ODNB entry by Catherine Horwood Retrieved 1 December 2012. (Pay-walled)
- ^ Down-To-Earth Women: Those who care for the soil, Dawn McLeod, W. Blackwood (Edinburgh), 1982, p. 128
- ^ "Sir Henry Boyd-Carpenter, KCVO Authorised Biography". Debrett’s People of Today. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ www.farrer.co.uk
- ^ "Moving On". The Law Gazette. 15 March 2002. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 344
- ^ www.merlin-trust.org.uk