Jonathan Ball, Esq, MBE

Career: co-fndr (with Tim Smit) The Eden Project Cornwall, fndr The Great Atlantic Way Cornwall; chartered architect; princ The Jonathan Ball Practice Bude 1974-2001 (8 nat and 7 regnl design awards 1980-2000), fndr ptnr Triangle Estates; occasional after dinner and conference speaker, assessor for architecture awards; RIBA: memb Cncl 1981-99, chm Parly Liaison Ctee 1981-87, vice-pres 1983-85 and 1991-93, hon sec 1988-91 and 1993-95; tstee Br Architectural Library 1988-95; memb Editorial Bd: RIBA Handbook of Architectural Practice and Management, The Millennium Book for Cornwall; RNLI crew memb Bude lifeboat 1966-94 (sr helmsman 1986-94, dep launching authy 1994-2007), co-sponsor RNLI Beach Lifeguarding, memb RNLI Cncl 2007-; memb Bude Surf Life Saving Club 1959-, choir master Bude Lifeboat Singer 1967-93, pres Surf Life Saving GB (SLSGB) 2000-09, chm Rescue 2010 GB bid for World Life Saving Championships; SLSGB Long Service Award 1984 and 1989, Queen's Jubilee Medal 2002; Master Worshipful Co of Chartered Architects 2007-08 (Liveryman 1986, memb Ct of Assts 1991-); installed as Bard of the Cornish Gorseth 2002 for services to the RNLI and Surf Life Saving Cornwall (bardic name Tregarthen); ACIArb 1978, FRSA 1985