He has broadcast on both radio and television. Returning to Cornwall, he resumed studies with Royland Jordan, and was for many years Organist and Choirmaster of St Mary Magdalene's Parish Church, Launceston. This led to a further year of study, after graduating, specialising in organ playing (with John Birch) and theory and composition with Dr William Lloyd Webber. Whilst there, he studied choral training under Sir David Willcocks, and the organ with John Birch (Chichester Cathedral), being awarded the Parratt and Haigh prizes for organ playing in his third year. Jonathan Mann studied the organ in Launceston with the late Royland Jordan, with whom he gained his ARCM and entry to the Royal College of Music. This event is part of the Daphne du Maurier Festival which runs from Thu 7th May to Sat 16th May Tickets - price TBA - from the Daphne du Maurier Box Office Our objective is to have a good party and come away enthused with the notion that 'funding the fabric' is fabulous! Our chairman, Alan Lowman, loves parties as does our new President. So this year we are generating synergy and saving energy by combining the two.

Last year, though our Fun Party was popular, our Annual General Meeting was sparsely attended. The meeting to be followed by the Annual Fun Party for which a small charge will be made to cover expenses.įOSB Annual Fun Party for members and their guests Please note that at this stage all entries on this page are provisional and liable to change. The Daphne du Maurier Festival 2009 runs from Thu 7th May to Sat 16th May The Events List 2009 is downloadable as a single sheet of A4 in PDF format.įOSB puts on a range of events throughout the year designed to appeal to different interest groups in the town both to raise money and to keep FOSB and its fund-raising objective in the public consciousness. Registered Charity Number 1115047 Event Archive - select year.

‘The doyen of British explorers.FOSB The Friends of St Bartholomew's Church Lostwithiel

Among his many publications are: A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil, A Pattern of Peoples, Aborigines of the Amazon Rain Forest: The Yanomami, Fragile Eden, The Oxford Book of Exploration, and his two autobiographies, Worlds Apart and Worlds Within, as well as a successful quintet of books about the long distance rides he and Louella have made across France, China, New Zealand, Spain and Albania, the latest being Land of Eagles (also published by I.B.Tauris). He has been a Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, winner of the Pio ManzuĪward, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club, a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow, a Trustee of the Ecological Foundation and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Robin Hanbury-Tenison OB E, D L, is a founder and current president of Survival International, the world’s leading organisation supporting tribal peoples, and was one of the first people to bring the plight of the rainforests to the world’s attention.

Land of Eagles by Robin Hanbury-Tenison