School Governors

Fr Oswald McBride OSB

Fr Oswald McBride OSB

Fr Oswald studied Medicine and worked as a junior Doctor in Edinburgh before joining the community at Ampleforth Abbey in 1991. Aside from periods of study in Oxford and in Rome, he taught Biology and Health Education at Ampleforth College from 1993-2011, and was Housemaster of St Dunstan's House from 2005-2011 after periods as a chaplain to St Aidan's, the first Girls' House, and a year as a Sixth form Housemaster of St Bede's. He is currently a trustee of the Ampleforth Abbey Trust and of St Benet's Trust, and works as Vocations Co-ordinator for the community at Ampleforth. He is also Prior of the monastic community at St Benet's Hall in Oxford, where he acts as Chaplain to the students. He joined Farleigh's Governing Body in 2016.

Malcolm Millar

Malcolm Millar is father to three former Farleigh pupils and joined the Board of Governors in August 2023. He qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and is a CFO with a background in SME management and investment. He was previously a governor of an independent London day school.

Gilly Orr

Gilly Orr, who joined Farleigh's Governing Body in August 2022, is currently the Impact and External Affairs Director at Social and Sustainable Capital, one of the UK's leading social investors. She joined the firm in 2018 to help design and launch its now award-winning Social and Sustainable Housing fund. Gilly has extensive experience of large-scale project management in the public, private and third sectors. She previously worked in youth services where she helped charities take on social investment allowing them to scale their work and, prior to that, spent 14 years in journalism, editing the Today programme and organising global radio coverage of major UK events for the BBC. She has a Masters in Inequality and Social Sciences from the LSE and an LLB from Newcastle University. Gilly volunteers on the Order of Malta’s projects working with the marginalised across the globe. She is a former volunteer, trustee and advisor for its UK youth branch, the Order of Malta Volunteers.

Contact

If a parent wishes to contact any member of the Governing body, please write to:

Mrs Jane Vyvyan
c/o Mr Paul Lane
Clerk to the Governors
Farleigh School
Red Rice
Andover
Hampshire
SP11 7PW

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