- Andrew Raven
Andrew Owen Earle Raven (
22 January 1959 –5 October 2005 ), was a Scottish conservationist and an influential contributor to modern land policy inScotland .The eldest son of a family of
Oxbridge professors and bankers, he developed professional expertise in land management. He was a trustee of theJohn Muir Trust from 1989 to 1995, a time when the charity started to acquire land in theScottish Highlands . In 1995 he became their Director of Land Management.In 1992 he became a member of the Council of the Rural Forum, a highly influential group which for the first time brought together rural communities and Scottish policy-makers. Three years later he joined the Scottish Consumer Council, seeing himself there as the voice of rural Scotland in consumer affairs. In 2000, he was appointed a Commissioner of the
Forestry Commission , becoming the chairman of its National Committee for Scotland in 2003.Raven was awarded an OBE in 2005.
He died of
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 46 on 5 October 2005.References
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/db0801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/08/ixportal.html Obituary: Andrew Raven] , "
The Daily Telegraph ",8 October 2005 .
*Pepper, Simon. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1588683,00.html Obituary: Andrew Raven] , "The Guardian ",10 October 2005 .
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1637642.stm Minister backs deer cull call] , "BBC News ",5 November 2001
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