Whos Who
Peter Tompkins
Peter Tompkins was born in Liverpool in 1959 but has lived in the South-East since 1982, these days splitting his time between London and Cambridge and occasional trips to the Lake District. Peter is a consulting actuary with Callund Consulting and... read more »
Debbie le May
Debbie has been a freelance journalist for nearly twenty years and has edited Quest, the journal of the Queen’s English Society, for more than twelve years. Despite having an interest in politics, she does her best to ensure that Quest is apolitical in line... read more »
Susan (Kitt) McKenna
Susan McKenna has a background in teaching English and French, sales, marketing, business development and management. She was Sales & Marketing Director with prestigious companies supplying consumer goods to retail in the UK and abroad from 2001 to 2016, then owner of her own... read more »
Michael Gorman
After a degree in physics Michael made a career on the technical side of the computer industry. Within that career he had to write many documents, and to advise junior engineers on their documents. Mathematics is traditionally divided into pure maths and applied maths. Michael’s... read more »
Ray Ward
Ray Ward was born in Sheffield in 1947 and is retired after a career in libraries of many kinds in Sheffield, London, South Wales, Bristol, Leeds, Hastings, Brighton and, briefly, Saudi Arabia. He is a Chartered Librarian and has a BA (Hons.) in Politics from... read more »
Adrian Williams
Adrian Williams is an actuary and management consultant whose professional life has been focused on the application of mathematics and statistics to the improvement of strategy and operations for organizations in both the public and the private sector. In 1992 he was elected President of... read more »
Bernard Lamb
Dr Bernard Lamb joined the QES as a life member in 1981 and has been President since 2007. He is the author of three QES research books based on national surveys, and of "The QES Practical Guide to Punctuation". "The Queen's English and How to... read more »