Deputy Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff Visits the Base – 17 August 2011

Iona Frost-Pennington and her husband Peter visited Millforge to understand a little more about the team and the way mountain rescue is organised regionally and nationally. Iona and Peter live at Muncaster Castle and together with her father own the estate. Recently she was appointed by the Queen as the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria. The Lord Lieutenancy role goes back many hundreds of years and is there to be present at all royal visits to the county. The High Sheriff role is a 12 month appointment.