Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle

Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle
Coat of Arms
Residence Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K.
Occupation anthropologist, educator
Years active 2003–present

Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle is a British Anthropologist and educationalist, who has carried out anthropological research in Africa and Latin America. From 2006–2007, he spent a year's fieldwork studying religious conversion to Islam in Mexico and also conversion to Anglican Christianity, after a short period of ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco.[1]

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle first came to the attention of the national media in 2003 when, as a student, his campaign for freedom of speech and the editorial independence of the Gaudie newspaper gained the support of then MPs Alex Salmond (First Minister of Scotland), Lord Jones of Cheltenham, Alistair Carmichael, Angus Robertson and Mike Weir, who backed an Early Day Motion relating to the matter in the Westminster Parliament. From 2008 to 2010, he was the 14th Baron of Cartsburn. In April 2013, he received national media attention following the inquest held into the killing of three children by their father, Ceri Fuller, where it was revealed that Ceri Fuller's wife, Ruth Fuller, a 34-year-old mature student, had had a reported "crush" on Lindley-Highfield, who was her tutor with the Open University at the time. The inquest heard that there was nothing to suggest that she had started a relationship with her humanities lecturer, Lindley-Highfield had responded reminding her of the boundaries between a tutor and student, and he had not encouraged her and she had no expectations of a relationship.

Biography

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle was educated at the universities of Oxford (matriculated under Highfield-Smith), Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Open University.[2] He was awarded the Lumsden and Sachs Fellowship for his undergraduate performance at the University of Aberdeen[3] and an Economic and Social Research Council studentship for his research into religious conversion in Mexico.[1] He holds three undergraduate degrees (two with first-class honours) and four further master's degrees.[2][4] He is Adjunct Professor in the School of Philosophy and Religion at Charisma University in the Turks & Caicos Islands[5] as well as an Associate Lecturer and Honorary Associate with the Open University in the UK.[2]

Lindley-Highfield is a descendant of a family of gentlemen farmers, the Hadens of Holywell House, Picadilly, Swinton, Yorkshire, through his father's maternal line, and through his father's paternal line is related to Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.[6][7]

At 21 years of age, he was appointed chairman of a local business club.[8] After six years in financial services, having worked up from office junior to branch manager level, he elected to go to university, which led to a career in education.

On 1 December 2009 he was officially recognised in the name (including territorial designation) of Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle by Warrant of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, Her Majesty's representative in Scotland.[9][10] The Lord Lyon has a legal jurisdiction to determine how names are recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.[11] This was followed by Letters Patent of the Lord Lyon dated 26 April 2010,[12][13] which were later registered in the records of the College of Arms, London,[14] rendering the Letters Patent also effective in England. This constitutes royal permission for the party to use the name.[11] From 2008 to 2010, he was the 14th Baron of Cartsburn and he remains Lord of Wilmington.[15] Neither is a peerage title. Both originated under feudalism.

He is an elected Councillor (unopposed) on Turriff & District Community Council.[16] As of 25th June 2016, he has been appointed Plenipotentiary and Special Adviser of the Association of the Representatives of Bunyoro-Kitara and the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara for Scotland.[17] Also in 2016, Lindley-Highfield was knighted by the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara for charitable work he does for the benefit of the Banyoro people.[18]

Academic work

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle has published on religious identity in Latin America in various sources.[2] Of note is his work on Muslimization, which is a process through which he describes how newly converted individuals adopt stereotypically Muslim characteristics to earn the social acceptance of their peers.[1]

He is also interested in the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and the ardent spiritualist, and researching kingship in Africa.[2]

Media attention

Freedom of the press campaign

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle first came to the attention of the national media in 2003, when editor of Gaudie, the student newspaper of the University of Aberdeen, when he and his editorial team resigned in protest at editorial interference by the University's Students' Association.[19][20][21][22] His campaign for free speech and the freedom of the press gained the support of then MPs Alex Salmond (First Minister of Scotland), Lord Jones of Cheltenham, Alistair Carmichael, Angus Robertson and Mike Weir, who supported an Early Day Motion in the Westminster Parliament calling on the Students' Association to reconsider their "ill-advised move".[23]

Ceri Fuller Inquest

In April 2013 a statement by Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle was read at an inquest held into the killing of three children by their father, Ceri Fuller, where it was revealed that Ceri Fuller's wife, Ruth Fuller, a 34-year-old mature student, had had a reported "crush" on Lindley-Highfield, who was her tutor with the Open University at the time.[24] The inquest revealed that 'there was nothing to suggest [she] had started a relationship with her humanities lecturer',[25] 'Lindley-Highfield responded reminding her of the boundaries between a tutor and student'[25] and he 'had not encouraged her and she had no expectations of a relationship.'[24] The Press Complaints Commission has since published details of resolutions to complaints about some of the reporting of this issue.[26][27]

See also

Debrett's Forms of Address: How to address a Chief, Chieftain, or Laird

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lindley-Highfield, M. P. (2008). ""Muslimization", Mission and Modernity in Morelos: the problem of a combined hotel and prayer hall for the Muslims of Mexico". Tourism, Culture & Communication. 8 (2): 85–96.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle FRAI FRGS". The Open University. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Prize List Session 2003–2004". University of Aberdeen. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie - GTCS". GTCS. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Faculty Members". Charisma University, Turks & Caicos Islands. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle". Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle". Burke's Peerage. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Members sought at business club". Express & Star. 21 March 1996. p. 12.
  9. ↑ Warrant for Letters Patent from Lord Lyon King of Arms in the application of Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle, Baron of Cartsburn of date 26 November 2007, Court of the Lord Lyon, 1 December 2009
  10. ↑ "Note from the Court of the Lord Lyon". Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  11. 1 2 OPINION OF THE COURT delivered by LORD MARNOCH in Reclaiming Motions at the instance of the Respondent in Petitions by (FIRST) THE MUCH HONOURED STEPHEN PENDARIES KERR OF ARDGOWAN; (SECOND) EUR ING DAVID AYRE OF KILMARNOCK, BARON OF KILMARNOCK; and (THIRD) MARTIN STEPHEN JAMES GOLDSTRAW OF WHITECAIRNS Petitioners; against ROBIN BLAIR ESQ., THE LORD LYON KING OF ARMS Respondent for Judicial Review of decisions of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, CSIH 61 (2009).
  12. ↑ Court of the Lord Lyon (26 April 2010), Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, 88, p. 60
  13. ↑ "Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle". The Armorial Register International Register of Arms. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  14. ↑ College of Arms [Windsor Herald] (February 2011), Register of Scottish Arms Recorded at the College of Arms , London, 5, pp. 98–100
  15. ↑ "The Register of Feudal Lords and Barons of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". The Armorial Register International Register of Arms. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  16. ↑ Prise Porter, N. (17 June 2016). "Community matters". Turriff Advertiser. p. 6.
  17. ↑ "Official Statement". ARKBK-CLBG. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  18. ↑ Davidson, P. (24 August 2016). "Church names Ugandan King as Patron to focus on country's problems". Evening Express. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  19. ↑ Curtis, P. (16 May 2003). "MPs debate future of Scotland oldest student paper". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  20. ↑ "Newspaper row to be discussed at Westminster". The Scotsman. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  21. ↑ Mackay, H. (21 May 2003). "MPs enter row over new editor of student paper". Press Gazette. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  22. ↑ Lindsay, M. (14 May 2003). "Students fight for paper's freedom". Aberdeen Press & Journal.
  23. ↑ "Early day motion 1242". www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  24. 1 2 Morris, S. (25 April 2013). "Father killed his children before jumping off cliff, coroner rules". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  25. 1 2 Carter, C. (24 April 2013). "Father killed three children after his wife ended relationship over 'crush' inquest hears". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  26. ↑ "Press Complaints Commission – News & Features". Press Complaints Commission. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  27. ↑ "Press Complaints Commission – News & Features". Press Complaints Commission. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
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