Lawrence D Hills

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Lawrence D. Hills (1911-1991) was a British horticulturalist, journalist and writer, founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA). A strong advocate of organic farming, his autobiography is 'Fighting Like the Flowers' (1989). He suffered from coeliac disease, which left him in a wheelchair, until introduced to a wheat free diet by the woman who became his wife, Cherry Hilda Hills, a noted nutritionist.