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Commissioner Profiles
Emeritus Professor Ralph A. Griffiths OBE, BA, PhD, DLitt, FRHistS (Chairman)
Professional History:
Professor of Medieval History, University of Wales Swansea, 1982-2002; Emeritus Leverhulme Research Fellow, 2003-5. Sometime Visiting Professor, Dalhousie University (Canada), Ohio University and Haverford College (USA); Ford Lecturer, Oxford University, Rhys Lecturer, British Academy, Stenton Lecturer, Reading University, Virgoe Lecturer, University of East Anglia, Bond Lecturer, St George's Chapel Windsor. Sometime Member, Advisory Council on Public Records, Vice-President, The Royal Historical Society, Secretary, Glamorgan Count y History Trust, Trustee, Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust, President, South Wales Record Society.
Current Research Interests include:
The English realm and dominions in the later Middle Ages, especially Wales, the Welsh and the English state from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century; The Lancastrians; towns and peoples in medieval Wales; migration of peoples in the British Isles.
British history in European archives in the 19th century, especially the Anglo-Venetian connection.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Doctor Llinos Smith (Vice-Chair) BA, Ph.D.(London), F.R.Hist.S. Professional History:
Formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Histopry and Welsh History, University of Aberystwyth. Joint Editor Merioneth County history Vol. II.
Current Research Interests include:
Currently completing a volume on the social history of late medieval Wales.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Professor Antony David Carr MA,PhD,DAA
Professional History:
Assistant Archivist, Essex County Record Office 1961-64.
Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor 1964-2002.
Current Research Interests include:
Social and political history of Wales in the later middle ages; at present working on a book on the north Wales gentry in the later middle ages.
Contact Details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mr J.N.O. Harries BA, MEd. FCMI
Chairman of Publications & Outreach Branch Committee.
Professional History:
Secondary Teaching and Deputy Headmaster experience 1962/1974; Adviser and District Education Officer, Mid Glamorgan 1974/1986; Assistant Director of Education, Mid Glamorgan 1987/1994; Deputy Director of Education, Mid Glamorgan County Council 1994/1995.
Director of Education and Leisure, Caerphilly County Borough Council 1995/2000.
Expert Adviser to the Welsh Assembly Government on ICT policy for Schools 2000.
Director, ‘National Grid For Learning Cymru’ 2001/2003
Contact Details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mr John Newman MA, FSA.
Professional History:
Formerly reader in the history of British architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Current Research Interests include:
Aspects of domestic and ecclesiastical architecture in Wales and England c. 1536-1914. Revision of volumes of the Pevsner Architectural Guides.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mr John Lloyd CB, MA, JP.
Professional History:
Civil servant in HM Treasury, the Welsh Office and the parliamentary service of the National Assembly for Wales. Latterly Deputy Secretary in the Welsh Office and Clerk to the National Assembly.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mrs Anne Eastham BA, Dip Arch. Professional History:
Specialises in the environmental interpretation of avian and small mammal remains. Research and teaching in archaeology. Current archaeological research projects in France, Spain and Australia.
Current Research Interests include:
Palaeolithic and later pre-historic avifaunal patterns in Wales and the Pyrenees. Also research into fowling methods in pre-firearm communities across the ages. Pre-history of Pembrokeshire and the continuity of community development.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mr Henry Owen-John BA, MIFA, FSA. Professional History:
Graduated form Birmingham 1976 and worked for Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust until 1991. Joined English Heritage in 1991 and became Assistant Director for the North West Region, in 2004 became Planning and Development Director for the North West Region with responsibility for English Heritage’s statutory Advice, allocation of grant and building partnership.
Current Research Interests include:
Retains an interest in pre-historic and Roman archaeology, particularly Chester amphitheatre.
Current Research interests focus on the architectural distinctiveness of industrial towns in north-west England and its contribution to the government’s housing renewal agenda. Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
Mr Jonathan Hudson MBCS. Professional History:
An Information Technology practitioner for forty years. Since 1993 he has run his own consultancy business specialising in the use of Information Technology to enable business change undertaking many assignments, mostly in the public sector, for large and small organisations across the United Kingdom and for overseas governments.
Prior to 1993 he was a senior consultant in Deloitte and Touche and had careers in the Civil Service, and the private sector, in Information Technology.
Current Research Interests include:
Use of technology to enhance the work of, and public access to the information held by the Commission.
Contact details:
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Tel: 01970 621200
Email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk