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Michael Fletcher
Michael Fletcher was educated at the King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read law. He was articled at Lee Bolton & Lee, being admitted as a solicitor in 1982, and becoming a partner in the firm in 1986 and a consultant in 2021. He was Senior Partner of LBMW from 2016 to 2020.
Michael has for many years advised on all aspects of private client, wealth and tax work; in addition to which he also has considerable experience in the areas of ecclesiastical property and charities. He is a trustee of two almshouse charities in Canterbury, of which he was previously the Clerk to the trustees for over thirty years. He was also for over thirty-five years the secretary and solicitor to the Trustees of the Pooh Properties, who manage the copyrights in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems of A A Milne on behalf of the (largely charitable) beneficiaries under Milne’s Will. In addition he was also for many years a trustee of an estate in the West Midlands which is managed on behalf of multiple beneficiaries, who are a mixture of the descendants of the original family owners and two large Canadian charities. He is a trustee of the Travellers Club in Pall Mall, of which he has been a member since 1979. He also chairs the Wine Committee of the Club.
Interests include music (especially opera); food and drink; and transport systems, especially inland waterways and the railways of India and elsewhere in the former British Empire.