Honorary Fellow

Hugo Brunner

  • I followed my father and two older brothers to the college and studied History at Trinity, 1954-57. 
  • I had a long career in book publishing and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire for over a decade.
  • I served on the college’s Bursarial Committee.
  • I gave a party, by kind permission of the President and Fellows, to celebrate the millennium of Oxfordshire in the gardens in Trinity in 2007.

     
Hugo Brunner

Profile

My career was in book publishing, mainly with Oxford University Press and Chatto & Windus. I was also chairman of a glass- manufacturing business, and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire 1996-2008, and as Deputy Steward of the University  of Oxford 2001-11.  

There are three things I have done for the University of Oxford which make me proud: co-leading the appeal to enable the Bodleian Library to purchase the Opie collection of historical children's books; bringing the Queen to the offices of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to meet the team that produced the second edition of that great work, one of the greatest intellectual achievements of her reign; and commissioning a memorial for the University Church to people with Oxfordshire connections who died for their beliefs in the Reformation period. 

I am now retired, into gentle research into family history.