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Alan Boyce, the Parish Clerk, and his wife, Elsa, the Parish Council Chairman, have lived in Longworth
for the past 27 years. They moved here from London, where they had lived for the previous seven years. Prior
to that, they spent six years in New Zealand and two in East Africa, and have travelled extensively in
many other parts of the world.
Alan was born and grew up in Ilford, in part during the war years; Elsa
was born in Richmond and grew up in Surrey. They both attended Grammar schools. They married in London
in 1956, after a very brief acquaintance. They have two children, Gavin and Carey, and two grandchildren,
Isambard and Eloise.
Alan is also Chairman of Governors of Longworth School, and Elsa is now in her 18th
year as a District Councillor on the Vale of White Horse, last year being Vice-Chairman of the Vale.
Alan’s working career was in IT, where he was both a director in public companies and latterly a private
consultant. He has a degree in English from Oxford University, where his tutor at Magdalen was C. S. Lewis,
and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has given speeches at IT, Retail and Hotel Industry
conferences in places as far apart as Sao Paulo, Colorado Springs, Singapore and (in distant and more
peaceful times) Baghdad. Elsa worked as a secretary and PA in a wide variety of organisations, and while
in New Zealand she learned to fly, gaining a private pilot’s licence which she has exercised there, in
Kenya and in the UK.
They are both convinced the world is going to Hell in a handcart, and see it as
their civic duty to slow its downhill progress as much as is humanly possible.
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