intensive programme of study focused on this important collection of clavichords, harpsichords, virginals, spinets and pianos in both restored and unrestored condition, Ben received specialist instruction in the care, conservation and maintenance of historical plucked-string keyboard instruments. Ben's training at Fenton House was funded jointly by The Clothworkers' Foundation, the charitable arm of The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, and The Association of National Trust members in Belgium. Ben also received support from the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) during his apprenticeship with Lucy Coad.

Ben has worked with Peter Bavington, clavichord maker, and has collaborated with Christopher Nobbs, a specialist musical instrument restorer and conservator. Ben undertakes freelance conservation, tuning, maintenance and restoration work for public and private collections in the UK and abroad, and most recently worked to establish the Richard Burnett Collection in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, after the closure of the Finchcocks Musical Museum. He has provided services to major UK museums and heritage institutions including the wider National Trust, the Horniman Museum, the Royal College of Music Museum, Handel Hendrix House and the Bate Collection. In addition, Ben's work has included preparing and advising on the display and use of historical keyboard instruments for period film and television productions, and he has presented and published papers on their conservation, maintenance and use.

Ben is Keeper of The Benton Fletcher Collection at Fenton House & Garden and is Adviser for Musical Instruments to the National Trust. He is a 2008 QEST Craft Scholar and a Brother of the Art Workers' Guild. In 2023 Ben was admitted to the Freedom of the Clothworkers' Company.

Ben received his primary training from Lucy Coad, a specialist conservator and restorer of historical pianos. With the support of The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST), Ben studied for four years at Lucy's workshop, nestled in the beautiful Cotswold valleys of the English West Country. Throughout that formative time Ben was resident tuner technician to the Mobbs Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, a private collection formerly held in Bristol.

Following the completion of his training with Lucy Coad, Ben was apprenticed to Mimi Waitzman, erstwhile curator conservator of the Benton Fletcher Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the National Trust's Fenton House in Hampstead, London. During an