Adrian Darby
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Adrian Marten George Darby, OBE (born 25 September 1937) is a British conservationist and academic. He is the son of Col. Cyril Darby MC, of Kemerton Court, Gloucestershire. He is married to acupuncturist Lady Meriel Darby, daughter of the former Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, and has two children.
[edit] Academic & conservation career
Darby was a fellow and tutor in economics at Keble College, Oxford University (1963–1985), and visiting lecturer in environmental economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
He subsequently served as chairman of Europe’s largest nature conservation organization the RSPB (1986–1993), and vice-president from 1995 onwards. He founded the Kemerton Conservation Trust in 1990. In 1994 he became chairman of Plantlife and chairman of Planta Europa in 1998 . In 1995 he became a trustee of the Herpetological Conservation Trust. He served as chairman of the UK Committee of the World Conservation Union (1996–1999). From 1997 he sat on the board of the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency. He became chairman of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee of the United Kingdom in 2004, a position he currently holds (2007). Darby was appointed OBE for services to nature conservation in 1996.
[edit] Other voluntary interests
Darby has served as a regional committee member of the National Trust; a fellow (governor) of Eton College (1979–1994); a county committee member of the Country Landowners Association. Since 1998 he has been a Liberal Democrat councillor for Wychavon District Council.
