Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury

Derek Coates Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, Kt ( born June 17, 1918) is a British civil servant, agricultural scientist, politician and Life Peer.

Life and career

Barber was founded in 1918 as the son of Thomas Smith - Barber ( † 1967) and Elsie Agnes Coates († 1967) and attended the Royal Agricultural College. He served in World War II and was wounded at this time. He worked as a farmer in Gloucestershire, before he held from 1946 to 1972 various positions at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ). Since then, he has various consulting assignments in the area of ​​agricultural services, among others for the government and the BBC, accepted.

Barber was from 1948 to 1952 a member of the Cheltenham Rural District Council. In 1969 he was a founding member of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group. From 1972 to 1993 he worked as an environmental consultant (Environment Consultant) worked with Humberts Chartered Surveyors. From 1974 to 1980 he was chairman of the BBC 's Central Agricultural Advisory Committee. From 1974 to 1989 he was a consultant with Humbert's country plan. At Countryside Committee he was Chairman from 1981 to 1991 ( Chairman ). In this context, he was represented at public events, in particular the opening of several landscape parks and performed the official opening.

From 1990 to 1996, Barber Chairman ( Chairman ) of Booker plc Countryside Advisory Board. From 1982 to 2005 he was president of the Gloucestershire Naturalists Society. From 1990 to 1991 he was president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB), after he was already there from 1976 to 1981 Chairman ( Chairman ) and Vice President ( Vice - President) from 1982 to 1998. He was also from 1991 to 1992 president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. From 1992 to 1996 he was president of The Hawk and Owl Trust and from 1995 to 1997 at the British Pig Association. In the Ornithology Society of the Middle East from 1987 to 1997 he was Vice-President ( Vice - President).

The mid-1980s he was involved in the founding of the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED ).

He was from 1985 to 1988 a member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Agricultural Strategy. From 1987 to 1989 he belonged to the Board of Directors ( Council) of the British Trust for Ornithology and 1987-1993 the Board of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust at. He was from 1991 to 1995 and again from 1997 to 1999 president. From 1991 to 1995 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the New National Forest Advisory Board and Vice Chairman ( Deputy Chairman ) of The Groundwork Foundation. From 1983 to 1999 he was a member of the Supervisory Board (Board ) of the Centre for Economic and Environmental Development.

Since 1990 he is patron ( patron ) of the Pendle Heritage Trust. From 1984 to 1991 he was a member of the Trusteeship Council of the Farming and Wildlife Trust. He is Vice-President ( Vice - President ) of the Nature in Art Trust.

In addition, Barber is the author of several books. In November 2006, he wrote the foreword to An unordinary life, the memoirs of the farmer and journalist Anthony roses.

Membership in the House of Lords

He was on 12 August 1992 for Life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, of Gotherington appointed in the County of Gloucestershire, and is since then as Cross Bencher in the House of Lords. On April 14, 1993 he gave his inaugural speech.

As subjects of political interest he calls on the Parliament's website agriculture, forestry and environmental protection. He reported so far last on 15 October 1996 on EU enlargement to speak. On 5 November 2002 he took part in a vote last so far.

Honors

Barber has received several honors. In 1939 he received the John Haygarth Gold Medal in Agriculture. The Bledisloe Gold Medal for Distinguished Services to UK Agriculture, he received 1969. 1977 he became carriers of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal. In 1983 he was honored with the Gold Medal for services to Wildlife Conservation of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Barber was a Knight Bachelor in 1984. In 1989 he was awarded the Massey -Ferguson Agriculture Award. Two years later, in 1991, he was honored with the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Agriculture.

The University of Bradford in 1986 awarded him the honorary degree Doctor of Science ( Hon DSc ). In the same year he became an Honorary Fellow of the Agricultural Society of England ( Hon FRASE ). He was a Fellow at the Institute of Agricultural Management ( FIAgr.M. ) 1992.

Family

Barber was married twice. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1981. Barber is married to his second wife, since 1983 with Rosemary Jennifer Brougham Pearson.

Publications

  • Farming for profit, Imprint unknown, 1961, ISBN 978-0592000046 ( with Keith Dexter )
  • Farming in Britain Today, Allen Lane, 1969, ISBN 978-0713900613 ( with Frances Donaldson and Donaldson JGS )
  • Farming and Wildlife, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in association with the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group of Agricultural and Conservation Organization. First Edition. London, 1970, ISBN unknown
  • Farming and Wildlife: A Study in Compromise, Protection of Birds, 1971, ISBN 978-0903138000
  • A History of Humberts, 1980, ISBN unknown
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