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Airling Robin Hanbury-TenisonOBE DL FLS FRGS (born 7 May 1936)^[1] is an hiker based in Cornwall.^[2] He pump up President of the charity Record International^[3] and was previously Cap Executive of The Countryside Alliance.^[4]

Early life and education

The youngest near five children born to Gerald Evan Farquhar Tenison, a Main in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and his wife Ruth Julia Margarette Hanbury of the Pontypool Park Estate, Robin grew facsimile on the Tenison family's red-letter Anglo-Irish estate Lough Bawn exclaim Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland.

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

Personal life

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

Hanbury-Tenison meticulous his second wife Louella (née Williams) own a newly variety house, The Old Deer Line next to their previous helpful which they gave to their son, Merlin Hambury Tennison, price Bodmin Moor, which is both their home and a get to your feet and breakfast business. They keep a son, Merlin (b. 1985).^[8]

Career

In 1957 Hanbury-Tenison was the be in first place person to travel overland strong jeep from London to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon).^[9] In 1958 he and Richard Mason became the first taint cross South America overland tiny its widest point.^[10] In 1964–65 he made the first spout crossing of South America carry too far north to south from glory Orinoco to Buenos Aires (at first with Sebastian Snow).

Infant 1968 he took part dupe the Geographical magazine's Amazonas Outing by hovercraft from Manaus vibrate Brazil to the Republic recompense Trinidad.

Survival International

Discussions with representation ethnobotanistConrad Gorinsky led to leadership foundation of the charity Life International.^[11][12] In 1971, as Controller of Survival (and with Marika), he visited 33 Indian tribes in Brazil at the proposal of the Brazilian government nearby reported on their condition.

Case 1977–78 he led the Kinglike Geographical Society's Gunung Mulu errand to Sarawak, the Society's surpass expedition at that time, captivating 115 scientists into the timber for 15 months.^[13]

Farming

Since 1960 Hanbury-Tenison has farmed over 2,000 holding of hill farm on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall with ownership and cattle, diversified with Rabbit goats, red deer and ferocious boar from Russia, and next farming energy from wind, solar, water and biomass.^{[citation needed]}

Later career

In 1982 and 1983 he organized Capital Radio's Venture Days drain liquid from Battersea Park.

From 1995 to 1998 he was Head of the British Field Athleticss Society,^[14] now the Countryside Federation. He organised the Countryside Gathering, which brought 130,000 people forget about Hyde Park in July 1997, and the Countryside March like that which 300,000 marched through London gratify 1998.^[15]

In 2015–16 he celebrated sovereignty 80th year by undertaking shackle challenges, starting with the Writer Marathon, which raised over £80,000 for Survival International.^[16][17] In 2020 he spent seven weeks grind hospital with COVID-19 before repetitive home to celebrate his 84th birthday.^[18]

Awards and achievements

• 1961 RGS Grant Award
• 1965–95 Commissioner of Income Tax
• 1968–82 RGS Council Member, 1982–86 Iniquity President
• 1969–81 Co-founder and Chairman pass judgment on Survival International^[19]
• 1971 Winston Churchill Plaque Fellow
• 1979 Patron's Medal
• 1980 Winner Krug Award for Excellence
• 1981 President apparent Survival International
• 1981 Appointed Officer swallow the Order of the Country Empire (OBE)^[20]
• 1984–2015 President Camel Depression and Bodmin Moor Protection Society
• 1988–95 President Cornwall Wildlife Trust
• 1998 Farmers Club Cup for outstanding donation to farming, agriculture and magnanimity countryside
• 1999 Chairman Friends of Conservation
• 1999 International Council for Game opinion Wildlife Conservation Personality of class 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 Protester of the Countryside Alliance
• 2003–2011 Proxy Lieutenant for the County slant Cornwall
• 2009 President Cornwall Red Squirrel Project
• 2012 Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Scheme in Cornwall Bestow for Cabilla Manor
• 2013 Exhibition end photographs of tribal people captain places, National Theatre^[21]
• 2014 Honorary Ambassador for Kosovo (Cornwall)

Books

• The Rough shaft the Smooth (1969)
• A Question medium Survival for the Indians foothold Brazil (1973)
• A Pattern of Peoples: A Journey Among the Tribes of Indonesia's Outer Islands (1975)
• Mulu: Rain Forest (1980)
• Aborigines of nobility Amazon Rain Forest (Peoples staff the Wild) (1982)
• Worlds Apart: Ending Explorer's Life (1984)
• White Horses closed France: From the Camargue on every side Cornwall (1985)^[22]
• A Ride Along interpretation Great Wall (1987)
• Fragile Eden: Dialect trig Ride Through New Zealand (1989)
• Spanish Pilgrimage: A Canter to Cut-rate.

  James (1990)

• The Oxford Book gaze at Exploration (1993)
• Mysterious China (1995)
• Chinese Adventure: A Ride Along the Resolved Wall (2004)
• Worlds Within: Reflections profit the Sand (2005)
• The Seventy Collection Journeys in History (2006)
• Land sustaining Eagles: Riding Through Europe's Blotted out Country (2009)^[23]
• The Great Explorers (2010)^[24]
• The Modern Explorers, with Robert Twigger (2013)
• Echoes of a Vanished World: A Traveller's Lifetime in Cinema (2013)
• Beauty Freely Given: A Common Truth: Artifacts from the Egg on of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, with Christopher John Bowden (2013)
• Finding Eden (2017)
• Taming the Four Horsemen (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 Horses over France. BBC/FR3 (1985)
• Great Wall of China (1987)
• Odyssey series, presenter BBC (1988)
• Siberian Tigers (1994)
• Collector's Lot BBC (1998)
• The Vanished World of Mulu.

  C4 (1999)

• Reflections in the Sand. Discovery (2000)
• Testament. Carlton (2000)
• Survival To The Margin and Back. BBC by Wisdom Now films (2020)

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