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Who's Who

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Fr George joined Pusey House in August 2013. He grew up near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the East coast of Canada. He studied philosophy and anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, and International Development Studies at St Mary's University in Halifax. He then read for a Master of Divinity degree at Wycliffe College, one of the member colleges of the Toronto School of Theology. After ordination in 1997 George served in Cherry Hinton with Teversham and in the Ramseys and Upwood (Diocese of Ely), then in Oxford as Assistant Minister at St Michael at the North Gate and Lincoln College Chaplain. ​George completed a PhD at the University of Durham under the supervision of Professor Andrew Louth, on E. B. Pusey’s unpublished lectures, ‘Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament’. His research interests include E. B. Pusey and the Oxford Movement, the allegorical interpretation of the Bible, and the artistic expression of Christian doctrine. George is married to Karen and they have two daughters, Clara and Charlotte.

The Revd Dr George Westhaver

The Principal

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Fr Mark joined Pusey House in September 2014. After graduating from Liverpool University in Modern Languages, and from National Circus Schools in Paris and Bristol, he spent the best part of a decade as a Circus Performer, before running away from the Circus to join the Church. Mark trained for Ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and has served as Assistant Curate in the Parish of St. Barnabas and St. Paul, Jericho, and as Junior Chaplain at Merton College, since being ordained. Before coming to Oxford, Mark was the founder and Director of the Youth Charity 'redthread', and lists among his interests football, duelling weapons of the 18th Century, and Group Analytic Psychotherapy.

The Revd Mark Stafford

The Chaplain

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Jonathan joined Pusey House in October 2020. For the previous fifteen years he had been completing an annual scholarly circuit between Leiden, Warsaw, and Oxford, teaching and researching. In Oxford, he was junior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall and DPhil candidate, reading law, at Oriel College. In Leiden, he was PhD Fellow and lecturer in jurisprudence at the Leiden University Law School. And in Warsaw he was a sometime assistant professor in the faculty of philosophy. Now he is wholly involved in the work of Pusey House, and that of the broader university, as a Pusey Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

Dr Jonathan Price

The Matraszek Fellow

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The Revd Prof Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Christian Theology & Ethics from the University of Chicago. He was appointed C.B.E. “for services to Higher Education” in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. His most recent books are Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), What’s Wrong with Rights? (2020), In Defence of War (2013), and Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014). In the press he has written articles for the Financial Times, the (London) Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the (Glasgow} Herald, the Irish Times, Standpoint, The Critic, The Article, Unherd and Quillette. He served on the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians (London) from 2000 to 2014, the Royal Society’s Working Group on People and the Planet from 2010 to 2012, and the Pontifical Academy for Life from 2017 to 2022. He now chairs the board of trustees of the Free Speech Union. He has lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham; the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; the US Military Academy, West Point; and the National Defense University, Washington, DC. His hobbies include visiting battlefields. In 1973 he drove from Scotland via Iran and Afghanistan to India. And in 2015 and 2017 he trekked across the mountains of central Crete in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh-Fermor and his comrades, when they abducted General Kreipe in April-May 1944.

The Revd Professor Nigel Biggar

Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence

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Daniel supervises our Common Good project at Pusey House, which this year will work in chaplaincy at schools in Blackbird Leys.

Daniel
Martin-Thomas

The Sacristan

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Alongside his work at the House, Edward is the Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, accompanying the college choir for their weekly services. Edward is in his second year of an undergraduate degree in Music. Edward is also a keen singer, and is a part of the early music ensemble Antiquum Documentum, for whom he also plays the organ. He studies conducting with Will Dawes and organ with Stephen Farr. Before coming up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington. Recent recital venues have included All Saint’s, Orpington; St Michael and All Angels’, Great Torrington; Keble College Chapel and Exeter College Chapel. Edward grew up in Sevenoaks, beginning organ studies with Peter Young. He was a music scholar at The King’s School, Canterbury, where he studied the organ with Adrian Bawtree.

Edward Gaut

The Master of Music

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Ian joined Pusey House in January 2022, having been a regular worshipper since 2013.  He read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge before working for the Diocese of St Albans for a number of years, managing its trust and glebe portfolio.  After this he worked in international supply chain for a US multinational enterprise and then became Head of Global  Business Development for a leading UK-based designer and manufacturer, setting up distribution networks across multiple continents.  Following a break over the pandemic, (during which he helped to set up and run a local grocery business) his career came full circle, back to the Church of England, by offering his services to Pusey House, where he now works closely with the Principal and Chapter both in the daily administration and management of the House and also in considering its future development. Ian plays piano and organ and enjoys the opera and ballet and gardening.  He is a member of the Critics' Circle.

Ian Palmer

The House Administrator

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Ruth joined the House team as a non-vocational House Intern in 2024. Her responsibilities include organising the hospitality of the House, purchasing House supplies and managing the House guest room.

Ruth Danstål

House Intern

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David has been a member of the House team as a vocational Chapel Intern since 2023.

David Sten

Chapel Intern

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Tim grew up in rural Lincolnshire and first came to Oxford in 2017 to read for a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages at St Edmund Hall, serving for two years as a Chapel Clerk and spending a Year Abroad volunteering in France and studying in Germany. He then read for an MSt in Modern Languages at St John's College, Oxford, where he was also a Chapel Warden, before joining the House team in 2023, in which he serves as a vocational Chapel Intern and administrator of the House website. Tim has research interests in the field of medieval German literature and reception studies. Within theology, he is developing interests in typology, sanctification, and the Eucharist. His recreations include reading in several languages, fitness, volunteering, and cooking and baking in the House kitchen.

Timothy Powell

Chapel Intern

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Cathy attained a BA Modern Languages degree in French and German from the University of East Anglia and a Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Management at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. She achieved chartered membership of the Chartered Institute of Information and Library Management while working in Baker Tilly, Chartered Accountants in London. Coming to Oxford in 2002, she has worked in the Bodleian Law Library’s European Documentation Centre and then for over 20 years in Merton College Library, first responsible for the day to day running of the undergraduate library, then, to balance childcare, cataloguing and preserving post-1820 special collections, such as the large collections on T.S. Eliot and the Sitwell siblings. She has recently assisted St. Peter’s College with their modern cataloguing. She is looking forward to being the interim librarian at Pusey House Library. She is also a photographer; you can see some of her photographs at www.cathylewisphotos.com. Her hobbies are singing in choir and folk settings, tennis and dog walking.

Cathy Lewis

The Interim Librarian and Project Cataloguer

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Karen joined Pusey House in 2013 with her husband, Fr George. In addition to managing the finances of the House, Karen also runs the weekly Sunday School.

Karen Westhaver

The Steward

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