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Godfrey Rust

I was born in London in 1953, married to Tessa, with three adult children: Emma (studying medicine and married to Tom Nixon), Joel and Adam, both student musicians. I live in Ealing in west London, working from home as a consultant data architect and ontologist (director of Rightscom Ltd, www.rightscom.com). I have a BA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick. For paid employment in the past I have been a music industry journalist, managed the pop charts, been an executive of the UK's copyright societies and travelled on aeroplanes too much. 

Tessa was ordained in July 2011 as a pioneer minister in the Church of England. We met and married at All Souls, Langham Place, London, and since 1986 have been members of St John's Church in West Ealing where Tessa is now a curate. I share in the leadership of music there and of our Sunday evening Cafe Church community. I write music as well as words: Geoff Shattock and I have produced three albums as Shattock and Rust, and I plan to release an album of new material Prayers in Time later in 2012.

The black and white photos of me reading poems above are included for curiosity value. They were both taken by Jake Bernard 38 years apart: it's difficult to say which hairstyle is the more alarming.