Rev. Anthony L. Birbeck

Tony Birbeck (MBE, MA, FRSA) served on the Farm Animal Welfare Council, 1980-1995, being involved in various working groups. He was a member of the British Veterinary Association’s Ethics & Welfare Group (formerly the Ethics Committee) 1994-2008 and a member of Veterinary Nurses’ Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons since 2005. He was the BVA’s Wooldridge Memorial Lecturer in 1988, “Animal Welfare – a shared responsibility” and was appointed MBE in 1990 “for services to farm animal welfare”.

He is a member of the Animal Welfare, Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association (AWSELVA). He has been ordained in the Church of England since 1960 and from 1978 worked as a management consultant in the field of teamwork and organisation development. Now retired he lives in Somerset, is married with grown-up children and grandchildren.