Bursar and Registrar
John Hanks was born in Sheffield. He read Theology at St Chad’s College Durham, and having trained as a Chartered Accountant he settled in Oxford where he soon became associated with Pusey House, firstly as Treasurer and subsequently as Registrar to the Governors. In 1994 he was awarded the LLM degree in Canon Law by the University of Wales. From 2000-2010 he served as a lay representative on the General Synod of the Church of England for the Diocese of Oxford. He is a trustee of the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith and serves on the Council of both the Additional Curates Society and the English Clergy Association. He is currently training for ordination at St Stephen’s House, and when time allows he enjoys travelling and visiting the opera, theatre and cinema.
Secretary of the Friends
Ann Chippindale was born in Accrington, Lancashire. She moved south to read Chemistry at New College Oxford remaining there until 1998, first as a doctoral student and then Research Fellow. Her research interests lie in solid-state inorganic chemistry and crystallography. Ann is Secretary to the Friends of Pusey House and a Vice President of the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. When not addressing envelopes and washing up at Pusey, she is tutor in Inorganic Chemistry at Worcester and Pembroke Colleges in Oxford and Reader in Solid-State Chemistry at the University of Reading.
Sacristan
Stuart Thomson is originally from Sydney, Australia, where he read for his undergraduate degree in Classics and worked as Verger at St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney. He is now a DPhil student at Corpus Christi College, working on early Christian literature, and particularly on Clement of Alexandria. Before coming up to Oxford, Stuart spent a year in the Solomon Islands, teaching biblical Greek at Bishop Patteson Theological College, the seminary of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. Apart from his involvement at Pusey House, Stuart enjoys singing in the Corpus Christi College chapel choir, has developed a great fondness for the English countryside, and persists in an on-and-off relationship with cryptic crosswords.
Director of Music
David Quinn began his musical career at the age of eight as a Chorister at Durham Cathedral. He was appointed Head Chorister in his final year and began organ lessons with James Lancelot in his final term. In 2004 he moved to Durham School as a music scholar where he continued to study the organ with Roger Muttitt. In the five years David spent at Durham he was awarded various scholarships, notably to the Charles Wood Summer School in Armagh to study choral directing and to the RSCM Summer School in Bath as an organist. Between 2007 and 2010, he was Organist of St Mary's Parish Church in Horden, then spending a gap year as Organ Scholar at Newcastle Cathedral where he continued his organ tuition with Michael Stoddart and received lessons in conducting from David Stevens. From 2010 to 2011, he held the position of Choir Director of St Giles Church, Oxford.