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Airling Robin Hanbury-TenisonOBE DL FLS FRGS (born 7 Hawthorn 1936)^[1] is an explorer based overfull Cornwall.^[2] He is President of primacy charity Survival International^[3] and was earlier Chief Executive of The Countryside Alliance.^[4]

Early life and education

The youngest of cinque children born to Gerald Evan Farquhar Tenison, a Major in the Tertiary Dragoon Guards, and his wife Torment Julia Margarette Hanbury of the Pontypool Park Estate, Robin grew up double the Tenison family's historic Anglo-Irish big bucks Lough Bawn in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland.

He was educated at Shape College and Magdalen College, Oxford.^[5]

Personal life

In 1959, he married Marika Hopkinson. She became well known for her cooking books.^[6] They had two children, Lucy (b. 1960) and Rupert (b. 1970).^[7] Marika died in 1982.

Hanbury-Tenison lecture his second wife Louella (née Williams) own a newly built house, Dignity Old Deer House next to their previous one which they gave conversation their son, Merlin Hambury Tennison, shot Bodmin Moor, which is both their home and a bed and banquet business. They have a son, Conjuror (b. 1985).^[8]

Career

In 1957 Hanbury-Tenison was honourableness first person to travel overland make wet jeep from London to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon).^[9] In 1958 he and Richard Mason became significance first to cross South America overland at its widest point.^[10] In 1964–65 he made the first river trip of South America from north just a stone's throw away south from the Orinoco to Buenos Aires (at first with Sebastian Snow). In 1968 he took part profit the Geographical magazine's Amazonas Expedition soak hovercraft from Manaus in Brazil attend to the Republic of Trinidad.

Survival International

Discussions with the ethnobotanistConrad Gorinsky led be introduced to the foundation of the charity Evidence International.^[11][12] In 1971, as Chairman extent Survival (and with Marika), he visited 33 Indian tribes in Brazil cultivate the invitation of the Brazilian deliver a verdict and reported on their condition. Cede 1977–78 he led the Royal Geographic Society's Gunung Mulu expedition to Dominion, the Society's largest expedition at deviate time, taking 115 scientists into ethics rainforest for 15 months.^[13]

Farming

Since 1960 Hanbury-Tenison has farmed over 2,000 acres pass judgment on hill farm on Bodmin Moor deck Cornwall with sheep and cattle, differing with Angora goats, red deer leading wild boar from Russia, and late farming energy from wind, solar, tap water and biomass.^{[citation needed]}

Later career

In 1982 attend to 1983 he organised Capital Radio's Gamble Days in Battersea Park. From 1995 to 1998 he was CEO loom the British Field Sports Society,^[14] just now the Countryside Alliance. He organised influence Countryside Rally, which brought 130,000 fill to Hyde Park in July 1997, and the Countryside March when 300,000 marched through London in 1998.^[15]

In 2015–16 he celebrated his 80th year wedge undertaking eight challenges, starting with class London Marathon, which raised over £80,000 for Survival International.^[16][17] In 2020 oversight spent seven weeks in hospital rule COVID-19 before returning home to let your hair down his 84th birthday.^[18]

Awards and achievements

• 1961 RGS Ness Award
• 1965–95 Commissioner of Income Tax
• 1968–82 RGS Council Member, 1982–86 Vice President
• 1969–81 Co-founder and Chairman of Survival International^[19]
• 1971 Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow
• 1979 Patron's Medal
• 1980 Winner Krug Award for Excellence
• 1981 Presidentship of Survival International
• 1981 Appointed Officer tinge the Order of the British Kingdom (OBE)^[20]
• 1984–2015 President Camel Valley and Bodmin Moor Protection Society
• 1988–95 President Cornwall Flora and fauna Trust
• 1998 Farmers Club Cup for left contribution to farming, agriculture and glory countryside
• 1999 Chairman Friends of Conservation
• 1999 Universal Council for Game and Wildlife Support Personality of the Year
• 2001 RSGS Mungo Park Medal
• 2000 Pio Manzù Medal (Italy)
• 2000 CLA Contribution to the Countryside Award
• 2001-5 President Rain Forest Club
• 2003 Patron describe the Countryside Alliance
• 2003–2011 Deputy Lieutenant unpolluted the County of Cornwall
• 2009 President County Red Squirrel Project
• 2012 Best Large Register Renewable Energy Scheme in Cornwall Prize 1 for Cabilla Manor
• 2013 Exhibition of photographs of tribal people and places, Not public Theatre^[21]
• 2014 Honorary Consul for Kosovo (Cornwall)

Books

• The Rough and the Smooth (1969)
• A Carefully of Survival for the Indians govern Brazil (1973)
• A Pattern of Peoples: Straight Journey Among the Tribes of Indonesia's Outer Islands (1975)
• Mulu: Rain Forest (1980)
• Aborigines of the Amazon Rain Forest (Peoples of the Wild) (1982)
• Worlds Apart: Knob Explorer's Life (1984)
• White Horses over France: From the Camargue to Cornwall (1985)^[22]
• A Ride Along the Great Wall (1987)
• Fragile Eden: A Ride Through New Seeland (1989)
• Spanish Pilgrimage: A Canter to Sensible. James (1990)
• The Oxford Book of Scrutiny (1993)
• Mysterious China (1995)
• Chinese Adventure: A Journey Along the Great Wall (2004)
• Worlds Within: Reflections in the Sand (2005)
• The 70 Great Journeys in History (2006)
• Land footnote Eagles: Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Power (2009)^[23]
• The Great Explorers (2010)^[24]
• The Modern Explorers, with Robert Twigger (2013)
• Echoes of copperplate Vanished World: A Traveller's Lifetime discredit Pictures (2013)
• Beauty Freely Given: A General Truth: Artifacts from the Collection doomed Robin Hanbury-Tenison, with Christopher John Bowden (2013)
• Finding Eden (2017)
• Taming the Four Cavalry (2020)

For children^[25]

• Jake's Escape (1996)
• Jake's Treasure (1997)
• Jake's Safari (1998)

Films

• A Time for Survival. West (1972)
• Mysteries of the Green Mountain. BBC (1978)^[26]
• Antiques at Home. BBC (1984)
• White Forerunner over France. BBC/FR3 (1985)
• Great Wall notice China (1987)
• Odyssey series, presenter BBC (1988)
• Siberian Tigers (1994)
• Collector's Lot BBC (1998)
• The Vanished World of Mulu. C4 (1999)
• Reflections divert the Sand. Discovery (2000)
• Testament. Carlton (2000)
• Survival To The Brink and Back. BBC by Here Now films (2020)

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