Timothy Noble

Timothy Noble had an international upbringing as his father was a British diplomat and his mother was Norwegian. His four grandparents were Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, and German.

After schooling in an American Convent School in Helsinki (where the nuns tried unsuccessfully to teach him how to knit at the age of eight) he was sent to boarding schools in England. He went on to Oxford University and subsequently worked in finance in the City of London before moving to a venture capital organisation in Paris. He gained an MBA degree from INSEAD in Fontainebleau with fluency in French and German. Thereafter he worked in industry and shipping in Brussels and Glasgow and set up a merchant bank in Edinburgh with his brother.

Outside work he has been the first Honorary Consul for Luxembourg in Scotland, Chairman of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Trust, Chairman of the Business Archives Council, Director of the British Ski & Snowboard Federation, and Chairman of the British Ski Academy. He proudly watched his son ski for Great Britain in the Olympic Games.

He has written a family history (Noble Blood) and a novel set in Ukraine (The First Shadows of Morning). An anthology of his poems (A Singer Without a Song) is due to appear in 2021, followed by a second novel. He has also composed tunes for the bagpipes which were played at his three childrens' weddings.

He still lives with his wife in Edinburgh in the same house they brought their children up in. He loves skiing, tennis, golf, poetry, ancient history, wine, bridge, all types of music, theatre, and ballet.