Who is this year’s High Sheriff?
David Way is serving as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire for 2024-2025.
David and his wife Rosemary have lived in a 16th century yeoman’s house, in what was Huntingdonshire, for 37 years. They met and married in Bournemouth.
David was Churchwarden of the parish church for 34 years; he is currently chairman of the Friends of Peterborough Cathedral. He read Law at Cambridge and worked as a solicitor in London, specialising in private capital; Rosemary was a primary school teacher.
They have two sons— Alexander, also a lawyer, who lives in the county, and Sebastian, an Anglican priest in the Oxford diocese – and four granddaughters.
They retreat regularly to their cottage in Wales, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons (or as we should now say, the Bannau Brycheiniog).
Within the county, their interests include the Art Friends
Cambridgeshire, the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust, the Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust, and the Hunts Local History Society. David is also actively involved with the Alumni Society of his old Cambridge College, St. Catharine’s, and is a former trustee of the Stained Glass Museum at Ely.
During his shrieval year, David plans (inter alia) to raise awareness of the issues relating to modern day slavery, and to highlight the importance of public libraries and the services they provide to the community.
