Peter Jennings, Esq's Biography

Peter Jennings, Esq's Professional Career

Career

journalist, writer, broadcaster, photographer and PR and media conslt; specialist in religious, Irish and philatelic affrs; princ and fndr IMC International Media Contacts, chm and fndr Peter Jennings Assocs Ltd PR 2009; pt/t press offr to Rt Rev Hugh Montefiore 1979-83; press sec: Jr Chamber Int World Congress 1989, Stamp '97 and Stamp '98 (both Wembley Conf Centre), Rare Stamps of the World 1997 and 1999 (Claridge's Hotel), Collect '97 (Olympia); launched Royal Mail: Saints' stamps 1997, Endangered Species' stamps 1998; stamp advsr: The Eden Project (Cornwall), Millennium Point (Birmingham); stamp conslt PA News 2000; co-fndr and chm Millennium Commemorative Covers Ltd; press sec to the Most Rev Vincent Nichols Archbishop of Birmingham 2000-09, press sec to the Archdiocese of Birmingham 2000 and the Diocesan Administrator Bishop William Kenney, CP 2009, press sec to Archbishop of Cardiff 2001, press sec to the Most Rev Bernard Longley Archbishop of Birmingham 2009-; has worked on the Newman Cause since 1975; ed Birmingham Catholic News 2002 (also special edn Pope John Paul II Silver Jubilee and Beatification of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta 2003); concept, text and photograph World Youth Day Cologne miniature sheet IOM Post Office 2005, concept and text England v Australia 2009 miniture sheet IOM Post Office 2009; regular appearances on TV and radio incl interviews and commentary on the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI 2005; memb RUSI 2003; memb: Foreign Press Assoc, Media Soc, Royal Philatelic Soc Cape Town, India Study Circle; assoc IOD 2000, affiliate RAeS; Lord of the Manor of Thremhall Priory Essex; Freeman City of London 1993, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Masons 1994, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Stationers and Newspaper Makers 2009; MCIPR; FRGS 2003; Knight of Merit with Star Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George

Peter Jennings, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Publications Aerogrammes (1973), Face to Face with the Turin Shroud (ed, 1978), The Pope in Ireland (1979), The Come Sunday Book (ed, 1979), The Church 2001 (ed, 1982), Pope John Paul II (1982), The Pope in Britain - The Official Record (1982), An End to Terrorism (1984, American edn 1985), Children of the Troubles (ed, 1986), The Wonderful World of Stamp Collecting in Universal Postal Union 125 years 1874-1999 (1999), The Queen Mother's Century Celebrated in Stamps (jtly with Tim Graham, qv, 2000), Benedict XVI and Cardinal Newman (ed, 2005), Cardinal Newman - The Story of a Miracle (2009), Benedict XVI and Blessed John Henry Newman, The State Visit September 2010, The Official Record (2010); text for Israel Welcomes Pope Benedict XVI May 2009, and Pope Benedict XVI Pilgrimage to the Holy Land May 2009, the Philatelic Service of the Israel Postal Company (2009), concept and text England v Australia 2009 (miniature sheet and presentation pack, 2009; also author numerous newspaper and magazine contribs incl: The Times, stamp column The Universe (2001), The Queen Face to Face with her Stamp (2002, The Times Stamp Collecting Supplement), Atom Bomb Exploded above Tristan da Cunha during 1958: The Tristan da Cunha Post Office - Inland Post Inaugurated (2006, Gibbons Stamp Monthly), articles about Diana, Princess of Wales Royal Mail stamps (1998), interviews with HRH The Prince Philip (1998), HRH The Princess Royal (2002) and King Michael of Romania (2007, Gibbons Stamp Monthly), Austria Post Smash Guinness World Record for the Fastest Printing of a Postage Stamp (2008, Gibbons Stamp Monthly), Ethiopia - Its Postage Stamps, Post Office, Postal Service and Postal Museum and Ethiopia: Its Patriarch, its People, its Potential (2012, Gibbons Stamp Monthly), Proud to be British, Historic and Memorable Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, A personal reflection (2012, Isle of Man Post Office)

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