Our
Team
All CRS Officers and Committee Members are volunteers and we are always on the lookout for new volunteers to join the committee
The CRS Committee elected at the 55th AGM on 12th March 2026
All CRS Officers and Committee Members are volunteers and we are always on the lookout for new volunteers to join the committee
The CRS Committee elected at the 55th AGM on 12th March 2026
Peter Arnold
Chairman
I have lived on the Calthorpe Estate for 40 years while practising as a barrister in Birmingham during that time. I was Chair of Trustees of Martineau Gardens for a number of years and also served as a Governor at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for a time.
Colin has lived on the Calthorpe Estate for the last 13 years, prior to which he lived in Selly Oak after graduating from the University of Birmingham in the mid eighties. He is a recently retired chartered accountant, having previously worked for a large accountancy firm and was also a director of a Corporate Bank for sixteen years. The Society’s finances will therefore be in good hands! Colin’s interests are local history, travel and sports – rugby and cricket.
Nick has lived on Calthorpe Estate since graduating from Birmingham University in 1979. he is now retired but worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist at Solihull and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals. He was Associate Postgraduate Dean at the West Midlands Deanery and Associate Dean for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In retirement, Nick has taken a closer interest in local matters. He is secretary for the Norfolk Park Residents’ Association and recently joined the Dales Streetwatch. He is still trying to improve his golf at Harborne GC!
Faisal started and runs the online fabric store poundfabrics.co.uk. He is a charity trustee and holds a business degree from the University of Birmingham and a Master’s degree in Marketing and Strategy from Warwick Business School. Faisal was born and bred on the Estate and is passionate about developing it in a sustainable manner and maintaining the area’s beauty and greenery.
Jonathan came to live in Edgbaston in 1997 to work as a consultant clinical scientist at University Hospital Birmingham, specialising in quality assessment of laboratory services. He retired in 2010 but has stayed professionally active as Chair of the Association for Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine AQMLM and working with ISO on international standards in this field. Jonathan is Communications Lead for CRS and manages this website as well as responding to Contact form messages. He also chairs the Chancellors Hall Residents Association (CHRA), which is affiliated to CRS. He is a keen photographer and is involved in many musical activities!
Jonathan Seville
Mush qualified from Cambridge University in 1991, works at The Priory Hospital in Edgbaston and is a Professor of Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery. He moved to the Calthorpe Estate from Vancouver, Canada in 2008 on his appointment as a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. Born and brought up in London, Mush is a relative newcomer to Birmingham. Despite this he is passionate about the benefits of living on the Calthorpe Estate. Mush is married to Jo, a GP, has three children, two Bernese Mountain dogs, two Burmese cats and loves skiing.
Steve has a Doctorate in geotechnical engineering: how to make rocks behave or at least get out of the way when they don’t. An early career in mining and then brickmaking exhausted the rock career path and for most of his working life he has been a management consultant in remuneration: a word hard to spell and usually considered to be unfair. Taking over his mother-in-law’s garden on Ampton Road, the diversity of woody plants in the grounds led to Steve developing an interest in trees. Steve is Treasurer of the ‘Birmingham Tree People’, effectively the tree wardens for Birmingham City Council and one of the largest networks of its kind in the UK. He is currently studying for an Arboriculture Level 2 qualification which ironically leads him back to rock: the constituents of soil.
Chrissie Twigg
Peter Wall
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