Daniel Ferguson

Daniel has been People’s Warden since 2020. He is also the Chair of the Guild of St Benedict and Chair of the Bookroom Committee at St Peter’s. Daniel has been involved in the church his entire life, including some 30 years as a Parish Organist and Choirmaster. While living in Sydney he was actively involved at St James’ Church, King Street, and was a Director on the St James’ Foundation Limited.

Daniel was a professional librarian for 41 years, working mainly in public and university libraries in Victoria and New South Wales. He was the founder of Friends of Libraries Australia and continues as Executive Director, a position which has seen him travel around the world, delivering workshops and speaking at conferences in Europe, Asia, Canada and New Zealand.

Helena Hughes

Helena was recently appointed a St Peter’s People’s Warden. She has been a parishioner here for about 25 years, since moving to Melbourne to head AusAID’s Victorian Office. Discovering St Peter’s was a joy, for its splendid liturgy and music and its warm and eclectic people. She has been mostly involved as a long-term volunteer in the Bookroom and in various aspects of hospitality.  

Helena’s working life centred on planning and delivery of Australia’s overseas development aid program. She was posted in several South East Asian countries, collaborating with governments, community organisations, UN agencies and the World Bank.  Highlights of her career were seeing how good aid can change lives at the local level, interacting with dedicated people and exploring countries’ languages and cultures.   

Michael Gronow

Michael and his family have been attending St Peters since the early 1990s, during +David Farrer’s time as Vicar.  Michael has also been a trustee of the Charitable Foundation for some years, and has previously served on Parish Council.  He has also been Secretary of the Melbourne Anglican Trusts Corporation, a director of the Melbourne Anglican Diocesan Corporation and a lay member of Archbishop in Council.  He has grown up children (Miranda and Christian, both of whom were baptised and confirmed at St Peters), and lives in North Fitzroy with his wife Sharon. 

Michael is a Melbourne based barrister.  He is also a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School where he teaches Insolvency Law.  He is the author of McPherson’s Law of Company Liquidation, the joint author of Australian Bankruptcy Law and Practice and the joint editor of Australian Bankruptcy Cases (New Series).  He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of its Australian committee.