Trustees and Ambassadors

Dominic’s career began at the York Archaeological Trust in 1979, where he was responsible for the research, publication and public engagement programmes and played a major role in developing Jorvik.

In 1995 Dominic purchased the Trust’s design and multimedia business which in 2000 he merged with another company, which owned and operated visitor attractions. He became CEO of the merged group. By the time Dominic left, the business owned five modern visitor attractions and had developed over 200 cultural heritage projects. He was then, in 2009, appointed as Director General to create a National Museum of the Royal Navy which now has seven museum sites and owns eight major warships, including HMS Victory. The museum currently attracts over 700 000 visitors yearly.

Dominic retired as Director General of the museum in 2023 and became Chairman of the Wellington Trust in July 2024.

Sheena Thomson is a former RN Media Operations Officer where she held appointments at HMNB Clyde, NATO Sarajevo as the Stabilisation Force Spokesperson, and Fleet Media Operations Officer at Northwood. Since leaving the RN, she has worked in the corporate and government communications sector, including seven years in the Middle East advising the governments of Egypt, Abu Dhabi and Oman.

Sheena now runs her own consultancy specialising in strategic, risk and crisis communications. Sheena is a Founding CIPR Chartered PR Practitioner, MCIPR, PROSCI Change Management Practitioner, Board member for the International Association for Risk and Crisis Communications and Naval representative on the Pen & Sword Club Executive Committee.

Jenny Moseley was Assistant Vice President of the National Geographic Society with responsibility for marketing the Society’s products, including National Geographic Magazine, across Europe.

She is also an experienced fundraiser, working for a number of national charities as a direct marketing consultant. She has been Chairman of the Direct Marketing Association UK and a Vice President of the Federation of European Direct and Digital Marketing.

Jenny’s current career is as Director of Jenny Moseley Marketing.

Munsur Ali is a film producer and a Council Member of the City of London Corporation. He currently serves as a board member for the Barbican Centre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and City Police Authority Board.

Since graduating with honours in 2004 in BA Film and Broadcast productions, Munsur has produced numerous content from promos to feature films. He is the founder of the ‘Mela in the City,’ ‘The Limelight Film Awards’ and ‘The London Bengali Film Festival.’

He is currently working on a slate of feature films and he regularly appears on TV, Radio and print as a speaker or discussing issues from his personal and professional background.

Nick is a master mariner and freeman of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners with over 25 years’ experience in the industry. He has a passion for historic vessels and their preservation and is a keen sailor of tall ships and Thames barges.

Nick is devoted to improving safety in the maritime industry and is currently head of Investigations at the BMA, charged with conducting no-blame investigations into marine casualties.

Louisa is an ICAEW qualified chartered accountant: her background is in professional practice having qualified with a medium-sized firm of accountants before joining Ernst and Young as an auditor and later going on to teach accountancy. Louisa has a keen interest in charity finance and is currently studying a PhD in this area.

After graduating from the London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town, Richard joined a maritime security company based aboard Wellington, and worked on several high-risk offshore projects in the Persian Gulf.

On returning to the UK, he qualified as a solicitor and currently advises on shipping and international trade law at Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC). Richard specialises in shipbuilding, marine insurance and admiralty litigation; and has acted for many of the City's leading participants in shipping. He is a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.

Away from his desk, Richard has served on operational tours with the British Army, and is a keen boxer, gardener and traveller.

Educated at Cardiff High School for Boys and the University of Wales (Swansea) gaining a degree in Geography and Oceanography, John served in the Royal Navy for over 37 years. Appointments included: service in “Cod War” (1973) and the Falklands Campaign, the Fishery Protection Squadron, the Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval School of Education and Training Technology and the Director of Naval Training and Education (Service Director of Education).

Working for Sir Adrian Johns, then Second Sea Lord, John established the charitable structures for the Royal Naval and Royal Marine Charity and the National Museum of the Royal Navy and thus became something of an expert in charity law and governance. John then joined the National Museum of the Royal Navy as Chief of Staff to the Director General. In that role he led the £34m project to save HMS Caroline, the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland in Belfast, and the £7.5m project to save LCT 7074, the last surviving Landing Craft Tank to be present at D-Day. He also supported the work in acquiring other major warships for NMRN, notably moving HMS Victory from the State into the charity sector.

John has a set of organisational and management skills, at the strategic level delivering cultural projects with a devolved Government and City and Borough Councils throughout the United Kingdom. He is well known by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund, having worked with them to secure the capital funding for NMRN’s historic warships.

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Tim was born and educated in Sussex where he has lived most of his life. After a 16 year career in the City of London with Scottish Merchant Bank Robert Fleming and with an active interest in politics from an early age he became the Member of Parliament for the Sussex constituency of East Worthing & Shoreham in 1997. He represented the seat continuously for 27 years until retiring from the Commons at the 2024 General Election. He spent half that time on the frontbench culminating in a spell as Minister for Children in the Coalition Government and he was Deputy Chairman of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee from 2014-24. With a longstanding interest in archaeology Tim studied Classical Civilisation and then Mesopotamian Archaeology at university and has dug on various sites in Sussex, Northumberland, Honduras and Iraq. He has been a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society for almost 50 years and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He combined his love of archaeology and politics by teaming up with the late Lord Renfrew in Parliament to form the All Party Parliamentary Group for Archaeology which they co-chaired and he also chaired the All Party Group for the British Museum. As well as holding the role of President of the Sussex branch of the Royal British Legion he has held a number of trusteeships on various organisations having previously chaired 3 charities in the arts, environmental education and children’s mental health and established two himself and is excited to be working with HMS Wellington.

Being born, bred and educated in Aberdeen; preceded 36 years’ service in the Royal Navy as a Logistics Specialist serving around the globe in every surface ship type and nuclear-powered attack submarines.

Retirement in 2006 flowed into a very enjoyable period as Finance Director and Group Company Secretary to the Chartered Institute of Linguists and in 2009, became the Chief Executive of the WELLINGTON Trust a post which brought with it, the job of Clerk to the Honourable Company of Master Mariners.

After retiring in 2020 he took on the role as an Ambassador for the WELLINGTON Trust.

Simon Quail joined the Merchant Navy in 1966, serving as a Deck Apprentice with Elder Dempster Lines. He worked in a variety of trades crossing many oceans before leaving the sea in 1988 to resume his career in education until retirement as a Deputy Headmaster in 2009.

He is a Friend of the Wellington and serves on the Trust Education Committee, developing the Schools’ Programme. He delivers the Wheelhouse Augmented Reality Computer Simulation to school children and visitors. He is an Wellington Tour Guide. “Gangway - A life at Sea” published by Racing Rabbit Press is his maritime memoir. www.simonquail.uk

Terry joined the British India Line cadet ship CHINDWARA in 1950 which started 10 years in the Merchant Navy and 34 years in the Royal Naval Reserve. He qualified as a Master Mariner in 1960 but potential sight problems started a 31 year career in Lloyds Bank. His appointment to HMS PRESIDENT was transferred to HMS WILDFIRE, the Headquarters Unit serving Flag Officer Medway. In 1980 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the Unit.

Retirement activities include IIMS, paddle steamers, study at the University of Greenwich, induction as a Freeman, HCMM and supporting The Wellington Trust.

Following a career as a marine cargo insurance underwriter working in Liverpool, Manchester, Reading, London, Redhill, Bristol and Birmingham, Glyn settled with his wife in the Cotswolds where he worked for an estate agent, art gallery owner, graphic design company and as an itinerant flat-pack furniture assembler. Time was then spent in writing which resulted in the publication of three books, “The Maritime Art of Kenneth D Shoesmith,” “The Dazzle-Painted Ships of World War I” and “CARGOES – A Celebration of the Sea.” His latest book, “Operation Title- Sink the Tirpitz,” is awaiting publication.

Glyn is a Friend of the Wellington and for some years acted as co-ordinator for the onboard Heritage Lectures. He also hosted meetings onboard Wellington for members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Wapping Group of Artists.

Glyn is a member of the Liverpool Maritime Society and the Seven Seas Club, writing articles for their publications and co-writing the Centenary Book for the Seven Seas Club. He has lectured on various maritime subjects in London, Southampton, Liverpool, Felixstowe and Jersey, the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

In addition to being an Ambassador to the Wellington Trust, Glyn has recently been appointed Chairman of the Friends of the Wellington. For some years he acted as co-ordinator for the onboard Heritage Lectures and hosted painting days onboard Wellington for members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Wapping Group of Artists. Discussions are now ongoing with both the RSMA and the WGA for future visits and exhibitions.

Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE is Chairman of Coltraco Ultrasonics, a high-exporting, advanced manufacturer, exporting to 120 countries, Director-General of the Durham Institute of Research, Development & Invention at Durham University, Director of the Centre of Underwater Acoustic Analysis, his “gift to the nation” and specifically to the Royal Navy’s Submarine Service, Professor-in-Practice at Durham University Business School, Chairman of the Council on Geostrategy Forum, which recently hosted the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference at Lancaster House, Visiting Fellow of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology.

A former Green Jacket Officer, he was Managing Director International Markets for TIMCO Aviation Services in NC USA, the largest independent aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul organisation in the world. Prior to that he was Senior Advisor to United Airlines/United Services, San Francisco CA USA, the largest B777/B747-400 wide-body aircraft operator in the world. He was a member of the Government’s COVID19 Economic Recovery Taskforce at BEIS and advises several Government departments.

His company has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in International Trade twice, in 2019 and 2022. During COVID19 his company did not place anyone into furlough, instead establishing a new laboratory, co-located with the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Department of Physics, Durham University, and developed via Innovate UK the first instrument to be able to check that negatively pressurised ICU Wards in NHS Hospitals were containing infection in air flow dynamics rather than spreading COVID19 into the rest of the hospital, building on work in fluid dynamics that his company has done with the Royal Navy for over 25 years.

His manufacturing company’s instrumentation is aboard over 10,000 ships, equating to 17% of the world’s shipping fleet. He holds an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Durham University and the University Senate’s highest Dunelmensis Award, for his contribution to undergraduate development and scientific research. Carl was recently honoured with the OBE.

After graduating in Rural Estate Management at London University, Alastair undertook a short service commission in the Royal Navy in 1970. Leaving the Service in 1974, he resumed a career as Land Agent and Auctioneer, first in Nottingham and then Holborn.

Since 1980, he has practised as a Chartered Surveyor (FRICS) in the commercial property market in the City of London. He is currently a Partner of Matthews & Goodman LLP in their City Office. He became a Wellington Trustee in 2012 and was appointed Chairman in July 2020.

Apart from his work and his other charity trustee roles, Alastair is a trained classical singer, with a rewarding parallel career on the concert and recital platform.

Alastair retired as Chairman in June 2024 and continues to support the Wellington Trust by becoming an Ambassador.

David Hogben, the Vice Chairman, has a background in Telecommunications and played a key role in the privatisation of the UK Telecoms industry, subsequently advising Governments and Telcos internationally.

A keen supporter of outdoor learning and contextual academics, David was awarded the BEM for service to the community for his work in making sailing opportunities available to all. He lives at Herne Bay in the far reaches of the Thames Estuary.

David retired as Vice Chairman in 2024 and continues to support the Wellington Trust by becoming an Ambassador.

Annie has been an Educator for over 40 years, teaching in both British and International schools, and working as an Education Officer at heritage sites throughout England, including the Tower of London. She retired as Head of Education at English Heritage in January 2006. As a consultant she has been involved in several Heritage Lottery funded projects and acted as the Education Consultant and as a session facilitator on the Wellington for some years. Annie was also involved as a member of the Steering groups in several exhibitions aboard the Wellington “Convoy”, Hospital ships and Troop ships, and Medals and Martyrs.

Annie retired as a Trustee in April 2024 and continues to support the Wellington Trust as an Ambassador.