Robert Drewett
Having read law at New College, Oxford he trained in the City of London and remained there after qualifying as a solicitor. In 1987 he joined Osborne Clarke in Bristol and stayed with the firm until 2014, when he and his team moved to Womble Bond Dickinson. He retired as a partner in 2021 but still acts as Senior Counsel on a part time basis.
Robert was the High Sheriff of Somerset for 2023/24.
Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 2005, Robert has been involved with a variety of charities within the county. His most active involvement has been with the Royal Bath & West of England Society, where he started stewarding in 1978. He joined its Council in 1984 and its board in 1995 and was chairman from 2013 until 2022, before being invited to be President in 2024/25.
He is also a trustee of the Langford Trust for Animal Health and Welfare, St Monica Trust, the High Sheriff of Somerset’s Charitable Trust and the Wells Cathedral Preservation Trust and previously was a trustee of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Trust and chairman of Folly Farm Limited, the trading company of Avon Wildlife Trust and a Church Warden.
On a wider stage he is a trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Innovation for Agriculture, the Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth, Sight Research UK and the Grateful Society. Robert was appointed as the Vice Lord-Lieutenant on 30 December 2025.