He has Longleat House and a 9,000- acre estate at his disposal. But Ceawlin Thynn, Marquess of Bath, is finishing the year as he began it — with his attention on the plight of imperilled wildlife on the far side of the planet.
He has just sent £50,000 to conservation programmes dedicated to aiding Australia's koala population, tens of thousands of which perished in bushfires which swept through an area more than four times the size of Wales.
'This year has been an incredibly challenging one for all of us,' reflects Ceawlin, who succeeded as 8th Marquess on his father's death from coronavirus in April and managed to re-open Longleat to the public just two months later, with requisite social distancing measures in place.