Rupert Toovey.
The founder of Toovey’s Auctioneers has been appointed Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex. Rupert Toovey, who founded the auction firm in the West Sussex village of Washington in 1995, says he is “humbled and delighted” at the appointment.
He has lived and worked in the area for his entire adult life and the appointment is recognition of his distinguished service to the community and county. In 2010 he was ordained in the Church of England and serves as a selfsupporting priest in the Diocese of Chichester while still working full-time at Toovey’s.