Richard is a retired consultant physician at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. He is an honorary professor of respiratory medicine.
He is married to Anne, a retired Knightwick GP and they have three children. Richard has been a governor of St Richard’s since 1987 and Vice Chairman since 1999.
He is a keen cyclist and rode from Lands End to John O’Groats for the hospice in 2006 and from Shetland to Spain in 2012.