2009 Honorary Graduate
Canon Peter Mortimer qualified as a teacher at St John’s College in York, before entering the Home Office to train as a Probation Officer, taking a sabbatical year in 1970 to pursue an MA in Social Policy and Planning at the University of Essex where he was involved in the establishment of ‘Nightline’.
Subsequent promotion in the Probation Service led to his appointment as Assistant Chief Probation Officer for Suffolk in 1982.
Throughout his professional life he has also served in the Territorial Army, achieving the rank of Colonel. He served for a number of years on The Princes Trust Council and was Director of the first Princes Trust camp.
Some ten years ago Peter was ordained as a Priest and is now the Bishop’s Ecumenical Adviser and a Member of the College of Canons at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
He has been a Member of the Suffolk College Corporation since 1996 and Chair since 2005. Throughout this time he has pursued the twin goals of the creation of a university in Suffolk along with a state of the art College of Further Education in Ipswich.
Peter is an Honorary Fellow of the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.