interview
Island Life - June/July 2010
Photos: Above, Peter
learning to ski in Les Arcs at
the age of 40
Left: Peter pictured at
Milbourne Lodge Prep
School 1959.
Below: Peter on his yacht
Starshine 2007.
“Accepting the invitation to be High Sheriff
miscreants and they’re hoodies and they’re
had to be a joint decision,” says Peter. “It’s
naughty. What rubbish that is! The majority
going to fully involve both of us.” As well
are hard working nice young people.” He
as being a year of relentless engagements
feels the generation gap has become a
and demands, it also demands the person (or
chasm thanks to technology, and so he wants
couple) to have pretty deep pockets: there is
to build on the work of his predecessor
no public purse to be tapped.
to support young people and the older
They have certainly hit the ground running.
Just a day after his Declaration, Peter was
naming a new boat at UKSA, and is already
regretting that he has had to turn down
certain things because the diary is filling up.
During the year Peter will visit the probation
service and the prisons: he will carry on
what his predecessor Gay Edwards started
and try to visit as many different churches as
possible – Peter and Gill are both stalwarts of
Freshwater church, having stepped back from
duties there for this year. Organisations for
the young and the old will also call on their
time.
Peter Kingston wants to use this year to
accentuate the positive side of society:
“There is an awful lot in the press and in
peoples’ perception that young people are
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