Peter John Michael Jennings, KMCO, FRPSL, FRGS
Journalist, writer, broadcaster, photographer and PR and media consultant
Mobile: 07967 639556
Email: peter@peterjennings.co.uk
Website: www.peter@peterjennings.co.uk
Chairman and founder Peter Jennings Associates Limited, public relations
Knight of Merit with Star Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George
Has worked on the Cause for the Beatification and Canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman since 1975
European Correspondent, Our Sunday Visitor 1986-1991
Press Secretary to the Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, 2009 to date
Press Secretary to the Archdiocese of Birmingham 2000-date
Press Secretary to The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, 2000-2009 – Now Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Press Secretary to the Diocesan Administrator, Bishop William Kenney, CP, 2009
Regular appearances on TV and radio including interviews and commentary on the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI, April 2005.
Editor, Birmingham Catholic News, 2002-2004.
Special edition: Pope John Paul II Silver Jubilee and Beatification of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta 2003
Concept, text and photograph World Youth Day Cologne 2005 miniature sheet Isle of Man Post Office
Publications Include:
Face to Face with the Turin Shroud (ed), 1978
The Pope in Ireland, 1979
The Come Sunday Book, 1979
The Church 2001 (ed 1982)
Pope John Paul II, 1982
The Pope in Britain – The Official Record, 1982 – presented by me to Pope John Paul II
The Pope in Poland (ed) 1983
Benedict XVI and Cardinal Newman (ed 2005)
Israel Welcomes Pope Benedict XVI May 2009; and Pope Benedict XVI Pilgrimage to the Holy Land May 2009, the Philatelic Service of the Israel Postal Company, 2009 – presented by me to Pope Benedict XVI
Cardinal Newman – The Story of a Miracle (2009)
Benedict XVI And Blessed John Henry Newman, The State Visit, September 2010, The Official Record (2010) – presented by me to Pope Benedict XVI on 15 December 2010
Lord of the Manor of Thremhall Priory, Essex
Freeman City of London, 1993
Liveryman Worshipful Company of (Stone) Masons, 1994
Liveryman Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, 2009
Member, East India Club, 2000
Members, The Farmers Club, 2010
Fellow, The Royal Geographical Society, 2003
Affiliate: The Royal Aeronautical Society
Associates Member: The Foreign Press Associate in London
Member: The Media Society
Member, Institute of Directors
Member, The Royal United Services Institute.
Fellow, Royal Philatelic Society London, 1974, Member 1966
Member, Birmingham Philatelic Society, 1962
Member, British Aerophilatelic Federation
Member, Royal Philatelic Society Cape Town
Member, India Study Circle
Concept and text, England v Australia 2009, miniature sheet, presentation pack and first day cover insert, Isle of Man Post Office, 2009.
CAREER
Part-time Press Officer to The Right Reverend Hugh Montefiore, Anglican Bishop of Birmingham 1979-83
Press Secretary Junior Chamber of Commerce World Congress 1989, held in Birmingham, UK
Principal & Founder, IMC International Media Contacts 1994, Public Relations and Media Consultants
Launched Royal Mail: Saints’ stamps 1997
Launched Royal Mail: Endangered Species’ stamps 1998
Press Secretary Stamp ‘97 and Stamp ‘98 (both at Wembley Conference Centre) Press
Secretary Stamps of the World 1997 and 1999 (Claridge’s Hotel, London)
Press Secretary Collect ‘97 (Olympia)
Co-Founder & Chairman, Millennium Commemorative Covers Limited, known as MCC 1999
Stamp Consultant Press Association PA News, 2000
Stamp Adviser to: The Eden Project, Cornwall, 2000
Publications include:
Aerogrammes, 1973
An End to Terrorism, 1984. (US ed 1985)
Children of the Troubles (ed), 1986
The Wonderful World of Stamp Collecting in Universal Postal Union 125 years 1874-1999, 1999
The Queen Mother’s Century Celebrated in Stamps (with Tim Graham), 2000
Also author numerous newspaper and magazine contributions including: The Times Register, Times Online. Articles include The Queen Face to Face with her Stamps (2002)
Features articles in Gibbons Stamp Monthly include:
Diana, Princess of Wales Royal Mail stamps – The Inside Story (1998)
Interview HRH The Prince Philip (1998)
Interview HRH The Princess Royal (2002)
Atom Bomb Exploded above Tristan da Cunha during 1958: (2006)
Interview HRH King Michael of Romania (2007)
Austria Post Smash Guinness World Record for the Fastest Printing of a Postage Stamp (2008)
