Sir William Worsley Bt, FRICS, FRAgS, MICFor, DL
Biography
Sir William Worsley owns and manages woodland in North Yorkshire. He was the Government’s National Tree Champion from 2018-2020 and was Chairman of the National Forest Company from 2016-2020. He is President of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and Chairman of Hovingham Estate. He is also a member of the Howardian Hills National Landscape AONB JAC.
He served on the Independent Panel on Forestry, which reported on the future of English forestry in July 2012, and was a member of the Forestry Commission’s Advisory Panel. He is a former member of the North York Moors National Park Authority.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and of the Royal Agricultural Societies.
He is a former President of the CLA, the Country Land and Business Association, the representative organisation of the rural economy, a former Chairman of the Scarborough Building Society and a former director of the Skipton Building Society, The Brunner Investment Trust plc and the Private Banking Board of Merchant Bank Guinness Mahon.