Can Sir Hugo Brunner tell us how he or someone else selected four women and only two men to become Deputy Lieutenants of Oxfordshire (Oxford Mail, August 13)?

That was hardly proportional, was it? Or was it positive discrimination against the male gender?

And why from Oxford, Buckland, Checkendon and Newton Purcell?

Why not Banbury, Drayton, Wroxton, or Bloxham.

And who are Diana Bagnell, Helen Baker, Marion Stevenson, Miranda Markham, and Messrs Macfadyn and Stratton?

What have they done to warrant such a high accolade?

Or is this just another classic case of the elite picking the elite?

Reg Crain, Cherry Road, Banbury