Edward Bayntun-Coward

Edward Bayntun-Coward read History at Oxford University and then worked at the antiquarian book firm of Maggs Bros. in London. Since 2000 he has owned and run George Bayntun, the bookshop and bindery founded by his great-grandfather in Bath in 1894. He is Chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust and four museums, No.1 Royal Crescent, the Museum of Bath Architecture, Beckford’s Tower and Herschel’s House. He was a Trustee of the Holburne Museum, is currently a Trustee of the American Museum, and is due to serve as the next High Sheriff of Somerset.