Trustees
Brent Elliott
Librarian and Archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society,
1982-2007 (assistant librarian 1975-82); 
Historian to the RHS, 2007 to present.
Editor, Garden History, 1984-88. Member of Council, Garden History Society 1984-94. Member, Historic Parks and Gardens Committee/Panel, English Heritage, 1985 to present.
Member, Buildings Committee, Victorian Society, 1979 to present.
Author of, e.g. Victorian Gardens (1986), The Country House Garden (1995), Flora (2001), The Royal Horticultural Society 1804-2004 (2004).
Trustee of Merlin Trust since 1995. Trustee of Finnis Scott Foundation (founded 2007).
Awarded the Missouri Botanic Garden Greensfelder Medal in 2008.
Bill Baker
Bill Baker has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for 10 years and is currently head of Palm research. 
As an undergraduate botanist at Oxford, Bill was a recipient of two awards from the Merlin Trust for plant-hunting expeditions to Nepal and Cameroon. He went on to study for postgraduate degrees in Reading, His current research focuses primarily on the taxonomy, evolution and conservation of palms.
He travels widely to study plants in the wild, especially to New Guinea, Madagascar and Lord Howe Island, and has also led plant-hunting tours in the Himalayas. He publishes widely in the scientific meadia, as well as in journals with a broader horticultural appeal, such as Palms, the Journal of the International Palm society.
Bill sits on the council of the Systematics Association and is Chair of the IUCN Palm Specialist Group. He is also a member of the RHS Rock Garden Plant Committee. In 2008, the Linnean Society of London awarded Bill the Bicentenary Medal, their annual prize for a biologist under 40.
Peter Cunnington
Peter Cunnington was formerly Curator of the
University of Liverpool Botanic Garden at Ness, a post he held 
until
his retirement in 2002. Trained at Wisley he has worked in most branches
of horticulture but specialised in alpine flora. His travels have taken him
to America, China, Central Asia, the Himalayas and the mountains of Europe.
A participant in two successful expeditions he has gained considerable knowledge
of plants in the wild and used this knowledge when acting as Botanical guide
for tour companies in both the UK and Canada.
Peter has received honours from the Royal Horticultural Society and the Alpine
Garden Society and was awarded an M.B.E. for services to meteorology, a hobby
maintained since school days.
Sally Petitt began her career in 1988 as a trainee
horticultural technician at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. During her
career at Cambridge she has had responsibility for several sections,
including alpines, and is now Head of Horticulture.
She has travelled in Europe and Asia studying plants in their natural habitat, and has twice received funding from the Merlin Trust for plant collecting expeditions to Pakistan and China. She has written for a number of publications including Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The Garden.
Jonathan Miller
Jonathan grew up on the family farm in Kent which sowed the seeds of his interests in horticulture and target 
shooting at an early young age. Later, he graduated from Oxford with a Biology degree and whilst there, participated in a plant hunting expedition to Nepal (along with fellow trustee Bill Baker) – this expedition was funded in part by an award from The Merlin Trust.
After his studies Jonathan qualified as a Chartered Accountant whilst working for what is now PwC. Since then he has worked in various accounting and audit roles at Reuters plc, BPB plc (now St Gobain) and now works at Hutchison Whampoa's European head office in London.
He lives with his family in West London where a number of his garden plants suffer from the side effects of two energetic children.
Jim Jermyn
Since 2000 Jim Jermyn has been Show Manager of Gardening Scotland, Scotland’s National Gardening Show. For 20 years (from 1978) he was proprietor of Edrom Nurseries, specialising in alpine and woodland plants.
Jim lectures widely in Europe, Canada and the USA. He has written two books for Timber Press: The Himalayan Garden, Growing Plants from the Roof of the World and Alpine Plants of Europe – A Gardener’s Guide.
Jim lives in Haddington, East Lothian with his wife Alison and gardens at Smeaton, East Linton.
Fiona Crumley
Biographical details and photograph to follow
