James Richard John Partridge OBE (30 October 1952 – 16 August 2020) was the founder and chief executive of the charity Changing Faces.
Born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, Partridge sustained 40% burns to his face, upper body, arms, and hands in a car accident at the age of 18 in 1970.
He married Caroline Schofield in 1978 and moved to her native Guernsey, where he became a dairy farmer and later worked as an economics teacher.
[1] Partridge wrote 'Changing Faces: the Challenge of Facial Disfigurement' about his experience, which was published by Penguin Books in 1990.
On 16 November 2009, Partridge fronted the lunchtime bulletin for a week for Channel Five in an attempt to try to break down prejudice.