ENGLAND
HERITAGE
Christopher Margrave
Eleanor Marsden
Head Gardener, Clumber Park
Director of Development, Chawton House Library
Areas of expertise – general gardening, especially cultivation of fruits and vegetables, and gardens, especially walled kitchen gardens. Interest in conservation of garden plants and history and cultivation of rhubarb. Appearance fee may apply.
Nottinghamshire, England
Contact: Lauren Taylor / Harvey Edgington Telephone: 020 7799 4548 / 020 7799 4547 Email: lauren.taylor@nationaltrust.org.uk / Harvey.Edgington@nationaltrust.org.uk Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/clumberpark Index
Eleanor works in the heritage and tourism sector as a senior director of a Hampshire historic house, and is passionate about promoting the UK’s beautiful, interesting attractions to a wide audience. With family links to TEFL teaching, Eleanor grew up surrounded by multilingual and multinational students taught by her mother, and went on to pursue an active interest in languages and history, studying History of Art and English to MA level and Hampshire, England also trying her hand at learning French, Greek and Italian along the way, before marrying a Greek. Also an experienced actress, Eleanor has worked in theatre and as a voiceover artist and is told that by American colleagues that she both looks and sounds ‘typically English’! She has wide experience in fundraising and has always been a proud resident of the beautiful English counties of Surrey and Hampshire. History and tradition have always featured highly in her career, and are something she can speak about with great enthusiasm.
Contact: Susie Grandfield, PR Officer Telephone: 01420 541 010 Email: eleanor.marsden@chawton.net Website: www.castnetwebsites.co.uk/site/Eleanormarsden 145