Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle

Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle
Residence	Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K.
Occupation	educator, community councillor, anthropologist

Mark Lindley-Highfield, whose full name is Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle, is an educator, community councillor and anthropologist. His surname makes reference to Ballumbie Castle, a ruinous castle on the outskirts of Dundee.

Lindley-Highfield first came to the attention of the national media in 2003 when, as a student, his campaign for freedom of speech and the editorial independence of the Gaudie newspaper gained the support of then MPs Alex Salmond (First Minister of Scotland), Lord Jones of Cheltenham, Alistair Carmichael, Angus Robertson and Mike Weir, who backed an Early Day Motion relating to the matter in the Westminster Parliament.

From 2008 to 2010, he was the 14th Baron of Cartsburn. He remains the Lord of the Manor of Wilmington.

In April 2013, Lindley-Highfield received national media attention following the inquest held into the killing of three children by their father, Ceri Fuller, where it was revealed that Ceri Fuller's wife, Ruth Fuller, a 34-year-old mature student, had had a reported "crush" on Lindley-Highfield, who was her tutor with the Open University at the time.

In 2016, a traditional African ruler, the Omukama (King) of Bunyoro-Kitara, gave him an award for supporting the kingdom. Lindley-Highfield runs Bunyoro-Kitara.UK, a voluntary organisation in aid of the community. He is also the founder of the Centre for the Study of the Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Africa.

Lindley-Highfield was educated at the universities of Oxford (matriculated under Highfield-Smith), Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Open University. He was awarded the Lumsden and Sachs Fellowship for his undergraduate performance at the University of Aberdeen and an Economic and Social Research Council studentship for his research into religious conversion in Mexico.

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