Environmental campaigner and botanist. Brought up in London. Built up a media career as a protector of the environment. Initially supported the campaign to raise awareness of man-made climate change but he changed his mind in 2004, calling the theory "poppycock". Since then his media career largely faded away.
He died, aged 86 years, on 11 December 2019 in County Durham.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
David Bellamy
Ravenscroft Park This park was opened on 5th December 1990 by Dr David Bellam...
Born near Belgrave Square. The Earl of Meath was actively engaged in social and philanthropic work. He was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, first President of the British Col...
Originally known as the 'Royal Horticultural Society Great Spring Show', it was first held at the RHS garden in Kensington. It moved to The Royal Hospital, Chelsea in 1905 and now takes place annua...
Probably a gardener working for Tower Hamlets in the 1990s, who died young. Our colleague Andrew Behan had had a shot at identifying this man. While not conclusive we think this is probably correc...
Some of these plaques have an 'R' representing Regent Street which was (2024 defunct) a Crown Estate website promoting Regent Street as a shopping destination. Wikipedia had (2025: the map is no ...
M.A. Secretary of Institute of The Ophthalmic Opticians, Refraction Hospital in 1929.
Hillfield Park, House of the Century Centenary Award, 28 May 2000. The Society for the Promotion of Historic Buildings
The building was originally "No 3 Russell Chambers" and is now labelled "Russell Chambers, Flats 25-36".
The Aldermanbury conduit stood in this street providing free water, 1471 - 18th century. City of London
Ernest Edward Austen was born in 1867 in Dalston, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of Ambrose Austen (1838-1924) and Eliza Burnet Austen née Smith (1839-1916). His bi...
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