Chris Gorell Barnes
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Christopher Michael Jack Gorell Barnes (born May 1974) [1] is an English digital entrepreneur and marine conservationist best known as executive producer of the documentary The End of the Line.
Early life
Gorell Barnes was born to Henry Gorell Barnes (1939-1983),[2] merchant banker and a director of Morgan Grenfell,[3][4] and Gillian (née Carruthers), a family therapist at the Tavistock Clinic.[5][6] His maternal grandmother was film editor Lito Carruthers.[7] His paternal grandfather was Sir William Lethbridge Gorell Barnes (1909-1987), a War Cabinet official later of the Treasury and Colonial Office (where he was Deputy Under Secretary of State from 1959 to 1963), and who had been Personal Assistant to Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1946 to 1948.[8]
Gorell Barnes was raised in Maida Vale, and studied at Bedales and the European Business School at Regent's University London.[5][9]
Career
Gorell Barnes founded a digital content agency called Adjust Your Set in 2008.[10][9][11] In 2009, Gorell Barnes was an executive producer for the documentary film The End of the Line.
He was named by the London Evening Standard newspaper in 2013 as one of the most powerful 'Tech Stars' in the UK.[12] Gorell Barnes has sat on the board of Eagle Eye Solutions, a digital consumerism business, since 2007.[13]
Marine conservation
In 2009, Gorell Barnes and fellow producer George Duffield founded a marine conservation charity, the Blue Marine Foundation, which aims to create marine reserves.[10][14][15][16] In 2010 it brokered a deal that created a huge marine reserve around the Chagos Islands[17] and two years later one that protected the waters around Turneffe Atoll in the Caribbean.[18]
Personal life
Gorell Barnes lives in London with his long-term partner Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho. Their identical twin sons were born in 2016.[19]
References
- ↑ "Christopher Michael Jack GORELL BARNES - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
- ↑ Gov.uk Probate Record Search, Surname 'Barnes', Year of Death '1984' (n.b. date of death given as 13 November 1983), p. 495
- ↑ T. H. Fitzgerald, ed. (1982), Money Market Directory, p. 1105
- ↑ Feder, Barnaby J. (17 November 1983). "London Exchange Entering New Era". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- 1 2 Hattie Williams (13 April 2014). "How I made it: Chris Gorell Barnes, founder of Adjust Your Set". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ↑ Gill Gorell Barnes (1984). Working with Families. Macmillan. p. iv.
- ↑ "Marriages". The Elizabethan. XXIX No 1 (661): 24. July 1966.
- ↑ Chris Cook, ed. (2006). The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives: Sources since 1945. Routledge. p. 13.
- 1 2 "Chris Gorell Barnes' video venture Adjust Your Set is really". Evening Standard. 15 July 2013.
- 1 2 Williams, Hattie (13 April 2014). "How I made it: Chris Gorell Barnes, founder of Adjust Your Set" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ↑ "Let us show you the way ..." The Sunday Times.
- ↑ "The Power 1000 - London's most influential people 2013: Tech stars". Evening Standard. 19 September 2013.
- ↑ "London Stock Exchange | London Stock Exchange". New issues. London Stock Exchange – via www.londonstockexchange.com.
- ↑ SuperYacht Times https://www.superyachttimes.com/editorial/51/article/id/9966.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Creating partnerships for a healthy ocean". Blue Marine Foundation.
- ↑ "Blue Marine Foundation 5th birthday party". Tatler. 10 June 2015.
- ↑ "Billionaire saves marine reserve plans". The Independent. 12 September 2010.
- ↑ Robin Henry; Frank Pope (25 November 2012). "Beauty and the reef: billionairess dives in to save coral". The Times.
- ↑ Bodkin, Henry (5 June 2016). "Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox becomes mother 12 years after devastating car crash" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.