Tory County Councillors for Horsham District







Pat Arculus
 Lionel Barnard
 Owen Davies
 Mick Hodgson
 Brad Watson
 Frank Wilkinson
 Geoffrey Wilson
Pulborough
 Henfield
 Billingshurst
 Warnham
 Southwater
 Storrington
 Holbrook
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Mrs Pat Arculus
Pulborough

Foxfield Cottage, Foxfields,
W Chiltington, W Sussex, RH20 2JQ
Phone: 01798 813258
patarculus@hotmail.com

Pat Arculus is a self-employed PA and administrator who is actively involved in voluntary work. Her special interests are the environment and conservation, animal welfare, farming, classic cars and motor racing and drama. Married with two grown-up children, her hobbies are tennis, scuba diving and stained glass.
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Lionel Barnard
Henfield

5 Church Terrace, Henfield,
West Sussex, BN5 9PB
Phone: 01273 493781
Fax: 01273 495138

Elected in 2001, Lionel represents  Henfield. He is an author of illustrated books and short stories and a freelance journalist. Lionel is married to Ann, they have one son, Sean. They run a mail order book business using traditional outlets and the Internet. Lionel is a long-term member of  Henfield Conservatives , being Treasurer for three years and Chairman for four. And, the past Chairman of a local business group, now the chamber of trade.
A member of the Education and Arts Select Committee and the Arts Task Force, he is  Policy Advisor with responsibilities for Minerals & Waste Planning issues and a school governor. Lionel says that playing a part as a Member who also runs a business makes this an exciting way of serving his community. His hobbies include computers, reading American crime novels and political biographies.
A firm believer in less control from central government and the fact that ‘Tories cost you less’ he firmly supports the need for county councils in planning for the future. ‘Regional government is likely to bring nothing but dissatisfaction to the people of West Sussex’
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Owen Davies 
Billingshurst

The Paddocks, Stane Street,
Five Oaks, Billingshurst,
West Sussex, RH14 9AG
Phone: 01403 784465

Owen Davies is a chartered engineering  and business graduate working in the international oil, chemical and waste industries until retirement. He was an Energy Industries Council member. Married to Peggy since 1966 he has three adult sons and attendant grandchildren. He is a smallholder with an interest in the survival of rare breeds. Owen lists his hobbies as painting, gardening, badminton and skiing. Main council interest has revolved around social services including work on delayed discharges. He is a governor of two schools. Outside bodies involvement is in rail transport, recreation groups and as chairman of an economic subgroup for Market Towns Health check with the countryside agency. As treasurer of the Billingshurst Conservative branch, he is a supporter of the common market but is totally opposed to the direction it is taking and the subservient attitude that the present government is taking with Brussels. Within the UK he believes the government should be decentralised
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Mick Hodgson
Warnham

Old Manor, Knob Hill
Warnham, Horsham,
West Sussex, RH12 3SN
Phone: 01403 265069

Mick Hodgson's family have lived in Warnham for over 100 years and have been involved in farming and the countryside throughout this period.  In 1983 he succeeded his father on Warnham Parish Council, where he had served for 50 years. Mick was elected Chairman in 1987. Formerly a Chartered Surveyor specialising in advising the pension funds of WH Smith, FW Woolworth and Novartis on property investment, he now runs a small property investment company. He sits on the County Council's Strategic Environmental and Public Safety Services Select Committee, the Planning Committee and Rights of Way Committee. Mick is particularly concerned about the urbanisation of our villages and his special interest is country pursuits. He is a Governor of Collyers School in Horsham. Married to Gytha, with three children, his hobbies are gardening, sailing, skiing and tennis.
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Brad Watson
Southwater

Ventura House, 15 St. Leonard’s Rd, Horsham, West Sussex,
RH13 6EH
Phone: 01403 251444

Brad Watson was a Horsham Neighbourhood and District Councillor from 1974 to 1991. During that time he chaired the Policy and Resources, the Horsham Town Centre Redevelopment, and the Area Planning Committees. He became Chairman of the Council in 1983. Brad special interests are Planning, Policy and Finance. He has lived, worked and been involved in the affairs of Horsham since 1960. Brad and his wife Lin are now retired from running their businesses. They have three daughters and 3 grandchildren. In his spare time Brad enjoys classic cars, boating, history and travel.
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Frank Wilkinson
Storrington

16 Alicia Avenue, Ashington, Pulborough, West Sussex,
RH20 3LN
Phone: 01903 892543

Frank Wilkinson has spent most of his working life in the Ice Cream industry and has been involved on the political scene since his mid twenties.  Frank, who has been married to Ros since 1961 and has three children and three grandchildren, believes passionately in family life and all that that entails – respect, decency and responsibility.  He is very much concerned that the breakdown of the family unit is one reason that discipline in schools and the spread of lawlessness on our streets is getting worse.  At County Hall Frank is Policy Adviser on Waste Management and is very active in the field of education and has recently joined the Fostering Committee.
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Geoffrey Wilson
Holbrook

Baldhorns Park, Wimland Road, Rusper, West Sussex, RH12 4QU
Phone: 01293 871194

Geoffrey Wilson was born in 1950, is a consulting actuary, with a Cambridge Maths degree. He has been a business and pension consultant with the Government Actuary's Department and mamangement consultants HAY-MSL and Arthur Andersen. He is the pensions "guru" answering reader questions in  Financial Times Weekend Money.
His city workaholic life changed when he married Allison in 1992. He set up the independent firm, Excalibur Actuaries, based at home in Rusper, where Allison also runs her garden artwork and design business, and where they and their daughter Juliette, born 1993 enjoy the lively village community centred around two pubs and one church, and the thriving town community of Horsham. His hobbies include crosswords and tennis. He is chairman of Rusper & Ifield Conservatives, and was elected to the County Council for Holbrook division in 2001. He is policy adviser in both Education and Social Services departments, with a particular interest in school education standards and social services for older people.
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