Treasurer and Registrar
John Hanks was born in Sheffield. After reading Theology at St Chad’s College Durham he continued his studies in Athens and Cambridge before deciding to train as a Chartered Accountant. Having qualified he settled in Oxford where he soon became associated with Pusey House, firstly as Treasurer and subsequently as Registrar to the Governors. In October 2000 he was elected to the General Synod of the Church of England. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and in 1994 he was awarded the LLM degree in Canon Law by the University of Wales. 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. When not travelling in exotic far-away places he enjoys 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
James Turner came up to Oxford in 2008 to read Law at Keble College, being appointed Sacristan at the House a year later. Originating from Stoke-on-Trent, he grew up in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England from an early age, which he believes to be the source of his zeal for real liturgy and the occasional dabbling in the Tridentine rites. Aside from his duties at Pusey House, he is also President of the Harris Law Society and continues to strive for a career in the Law.
Directors of Music
James Potter reads Music at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he is the current holder of the Maurice Pearton Choral Scholarship. He has sung with many other Oxford ensembles including Oxford Philomusica, the Choirs of Magdalen and New College, and the Oxford Singers. He is frequently engaged as a soloist in both opera and oratorio, in repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to Arvo Pärt. Prior to coming up to Oxford, he sang at Bath Abbey under Peter King.
Richard Moore is Senior Organ Scholar at St John's. He spent a year as Organ Scholar of Southwell Minster, where he regularly accompanied the three cathedral choirs under the direction and tutelage of Paul Hale and Simon Bell. Prior to this, he held scholarships in the Portsmouth Diocese, at the Anglican Cathedral and later at St Mary's Portsea. Richard has just completed his first year of reading Music, and currently studies the organ with Clive Driskill-Smith.