A former High Sheriff of Powys has been appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Powys.

Julian Salmon, DL has been appointed into the role of Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Powys. The appointment has been announced by HM Lord Lieutenant of Powys, the Honourable Dame Shân Legge-Bourke DCVO.

The Lord Lieutenant of Powys has also announced the appointment of three Deputy Lieutenants. They are Peter Guthrie, David Trant and Nicola Watson.

Mr Salmon, who was High Sheriff of Powys in 2005/06, has an honours degree in Economics and Political Science. He was director of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) Wales from 1991 to 2010 and farms in Radnorshire.

He is president of Radnor Scouts and is director and trustee of the Worgan Trust, a conversation and educational trust providing inner city children access to the countryside. He and his wife Maggie have four children.

Peter Guthrie was a senior lecturer in agriculture at Coleg Howell Harris in Brecon while farming in partnership with his wife Marion. He has been show and company secretary for the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, retiring in 2006 to set up and develop his business as a full-time bee-keeper and honey producer.

Among his many interests he is a fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain, the current chairman of the Royal Welsh Sheep Shearing Committee and is on the Board of Management of Brecknock YFC. Mr Guthrie has two sons, William and Thomas.

David Trant, a former High Sheriff of Powys in 2001/02, is married with three children. He holds an NDA from the Royal Agricultural College. Prior to running the family farm at Abergavenny, he worked on a ranch in British Columbia, Canada.

He currently farms in partnership with his wife Christina, near Welshpool.

Nicola Watson, who lives near Bwlch, Brecon was brought up in Ireland where her father was the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. Qualifying as a physiotherapist in 1972, practising at the War Memorial Hospital in Brecon until her retirement this year.

She lived abroad with her husband William, an army officer, before settling in Wales 25 years ago. A keen horsewoman, she currently runs a smallholding with a small flock of Llanwenog sheep. Mrs Watson has three children and seven grandchildren.