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...
Active in 1986 but it seems dormant now, 2022.
Opens (mainly private) gardens to the public to raise money for charity. Grew out of a need to provide finances for retired district nurses.
Set up to run the Abney Park cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park), this company also ran the Chingford Mount cemetery. It went into administration in the 1970s.
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
Person, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
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