Anthony Whitworth-Jones (born 1 September 1945) has been the General Director of the Garsington Opera

Garsington Opera

Garsington Opera is an annual open air summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. For twenty one years it was held in the gardens of Leonard Ingrams' home at Garsington Manor in Oxfordshire. Since 2011 the festival is now held in Wormsley Park, the home of the Getty family near High...

 since 2005. He also worked with the Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is a country house, thought to be about six hundred years old, located near Lewes in East Sussex, England. It is also the site of an opera house which, with the exception of its closing during the Second World War, for a few immediate post-war years, and in 1993 during the...

 opera during the 1980s.

He is the son of Henry Whitworth-Jones and Patience Martin. In 1974, he married Camilla (née Barlow); daughter of Erasmus Darwin Barlow

Erasmus Darwin Barlow

Erasmus Darwin Barlow FRCPsych FZS was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman.Born in London in 1915, he was the second son of Sir Alan Barlow, son of Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician. His mother was Lady Nora Barlow, daughter of Sir Horace Darwin. He was a great-grandson of the...

 (and a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

). They have one daughter, Eleanor Gwen Whitworth-Jones (born 1975); he also has two stepchildren from her first marriage to Martin C. Mitcheson.