The Most Revd Prof Barry F. Peachey
LLB(Hons) LLM PhD BSc STh(Lambeth) HonDCL HonDD HonDTh

CBiol MIBiol FCollP MBAE MCIArb (R’td) FETC Cert. Mediation.

Visiting Professor of English Law. Lecturer in Science and Theology.

Consultant Forensic Biologist & Ecologist.

The Most Rev'd Prof Barry Peachey became Chairman of the Equine & Animal Lawyers Association in 1996 when at the request of the previous management committee he took over the small existing group and combined it with the Journal Horse Law- The Equine Law & Litigation Reports of which he was already the founding Editor. Horse Law now functions as the journal of the Association, publishing Association information together with the law reports and articles on specialist animal law and litigation topics.

Barry Peachey was born in the New Forest in Hampshire in 1955 where his father, the late Frank Peachey, was Huntsman of the New Forest Foxhounds, and his mother was Groom. Inevitably he learned to ride as a small child, and at one time or another has been involved in a wide range of equestrian activities. He joined the Hampshire Constabulary as a Cadet in 1971, and after serving around the County, retired due to injury in 1986. He worked for a Lloyds Syndicate for a year, but then went to Doggett Hawke, solicitors in Basingstoke as Chief Managing Clerk, running a Department specialising in countryside law issues.

Since 1986, and full-time since 1988 his professional practice has been as an Expert Witness and Consultant in animal litigation in general, and equine litigation in particular. As a Chartered Biologist specialising in equine and other animal biology and ecology, he has given expert evidence and advice in cases throughout Britain, and also in the USA, Hong Kong and Australia, for clients ranging from private individuals to major commercial concerns and government departments.

He has produced several books and hundreds of articles on countryside legal issues, including a major Solicitors Journal series, and has lectured widely in Britain, and also in universities and conferences in the USA. This work has included lengthy periods of service as Legal Editor of Countryman's Weekly, and Sporting Gun magazines. He has served as Chairman of the Legal Aid Working Party of the British Academy of Experts, and is widely used as a commercial lecturer on Experts' Costs in litigation.

Outside his legal professional life, Barry is a Anglican Bishop and having previously served as Metropolitan Chancellor of the Anglican Independent Communion Worldwide, currently serves in a mostly administrative role as Archbishop in Britain & Europe of the Igreja Anglicana do Brasil (Anglican Church of Brazil), a state registered church, where the church’s theological college in Sao Paulo is named after him.

Barry is a church bell ringer who with his wife Heather runs the Barrow-upon-Humber Ringing Centre, a nationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching the historic heritage art of English Change Ringing. He is Master of the Barrow & District Society of Church Bell Ringers, a specialist training group, and is also Chairman of the Ringing Centres Committee of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, having served as a member of the Council for nearly thirty years, and having occupied a variety of other senior appointments in the world of bell ringing.