Sir Thomas Pope Fellow

Julia Hunt-Grubbe

  • The Hunt-Grubbe family has had connections with Trinity since 1671.
  • Julia has had involvement in various fundraising roles.
  • Together with her late husband, Robert, she has run an estate in Wiltshire; a commercial forest in Scotland and a historic property on the Cote d’Azur.
  • Julia's two daughters were at Trinity, one reading Medical Anthropology and the other Biological Sciences.
     
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Robert and Julia Hunt-Grubbe

Profile

Julia has been involved in various fundraising ventures and has recently retired as chairman of the Fundraising committee of St John Ambulance, Wiltshire. She is also a Liveryman and sings in a local choir. 

Julia was elected to a Sir Thomas Pope Fellowship jointly with her late husband, Robert (1938-2025). Robert was the founder of Sondex, a company providing innovative Well Logging Instrumentation which grew to become a major supplier worldwide, gaining Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and International Trade. His non-technical interests included forestry and farming; he was a local councillor and vice-chairman of a charity restoring the former Devizes Assize Court.