Dame Fiona Claire Reynolds, DBE (born 29 March 1958, Alston, Cumbria) is the Director-General of the National Trust. She was awarded the DBE in the New Year Honours 2008 for "services to Heritage and conservation".
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She attended Rugby High School for Girls. She went to Newnham College, Cambridge.
She became head of the National Trust in 2001, and has seen membership grow to 3.5 million people. The charity looks after 612,000 acres (2,480 km2) of land in the United Kingdom.
In February 2010 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[1]
Her appearance on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on 18 February 2010 added momentum to the campaign to "save" Abbey Road studios.[2]
She married Robert Merrill in 1981 in Rugby; they have three daughters.