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Airling Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE DL FLS FRGS [1] Cornwall .[2] Survival International [3] [4]
Early life and education
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The youngest of five children born to Gerald Evan Farquhar Tenison, a Major in the 3rd Dragoon Guards , and his wife Ruth Julia Margarette Hanbury of the Pontypool Park Estate , Robin grew up on the Tenison family's historic Anglo-Irish estate Lough Bawn in Castleblayney , County Monaghan , Ireland .
He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford .[5]
Personal life
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In 1959, he married Marika Hopkinson . She became well known for her cookery books.[6] [7]
Hanbury-Tenison and his second wife Louella (née Williams) own a newly built house, The Old Deer House next to their previous one which they gave to their son, Merlin Hambury Tennison, on Bodmin Moor , which is both their home and a bed and breakfast business. They have a son, Merlin (b. 1985).[8]
Career
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In 1957 Hanbury-Tenison was the first person to travel overland by jeep from London to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon).[9] Richard Mason became the first to cross South America overland at its widest point.[10] Orinoco to Buenos Aires (at first with Sebastian Snow ). In 1968 he took part in the Geographical hovercraft from Manaus in Brazil to the Republic of Trinidad .
Survival International
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Discussions with the ethnobotanist Conrad Gorinsky led to the foundation of the charity Survival International .[11] [12] Royal Geographical Society 's Gunung Mulu expedition to Sarawak , the Society's largest expedition at that time, taking 115 scientists into the rainforest for 15 months.[13]
Farming
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Since 1960 Hanbury-Tenison has farmed over 2,000 acres of hill farm on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall with sheep and cattle, diversified with Angora goats , red deer and wild boar from Russia , and later farming energy from wind, solar, water and biomass.[citation needed
Later career
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In 1982 and 1983 he organised Capital Radio 's Venture Days in Battersea Park . From 1995 to 1998 he was CEO of the British Field Sports Society ,[14] Countryside Alliance . He organised the Countryside Rally, which brought 130,000 people 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 by undertaking eight challenges, starting with the London Marathon, which raised over £80,000 for Survival International .[16] [17] COVID-19 before returning home to celebrate his 84th birthday.[18]
Awards and achievements
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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 President of Survival International
1981 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[20]
1984–2015 President Camel Valley and Bodmin Moor Protection Society
1988–95 President Cornwall Wildlife Trust
1998 Farmers Club Cup for outstanding contribution to farming, agriculture and the countryside
1999 Chairman Friends of Conservation
1999 International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation 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 of the Countryside Alliance
2003–2011 Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Cornwall
2009 President Cornwall Red Squirrel Project
2012 Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Scheme in Cornwall Award for Cabilla Manor
2013 Exhibition of photographs of tribal people and places, National Theatre[21]
2014 Honorary Consul for Kosovo (Cornwall)
Books
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The Rough and the Smooth (1969)
A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil (1973)
A Pattern of Peoples: A 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: An 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 Zealand (1989)
Spanish Pilgrimage: A Canter to St. James (1990)
The Oxford Book of Exploration (1993)
Mysterious China (1995)
Chinese Adventure: A Ride Along the Great Wall (2004)
Worlds Within: Reflections in the Sand (2005)
The Seventy Great Journeys in History (2006)
Land of Eagles: Riding Through Europe's Forgotten 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 Pictures (2013)
Beauty Freely Given: A Universal Truth: Artifacts from the Collection of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, with Christopher John Bowden (2013)
Finding Eden (2017)
Taming the Four Horsemen (2020)
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Jake's Escape (1996)
Jake's Treasure (1997)
Jake's Safari (1998)
Films
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A Time for Survival . Westward (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 Lost World of Mulu . C4 (1999)
Reflections in the Sand . Discovery (2000)
Testament . Carlton (2000)
Survival To The Brink and Back . BBC by Here Now films (2020)
References
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^ Rees, Caroline (5 February 2016). "Robin Hanbury-Tenison's Travelling Life" . The Telegraph . The Daily Telegraph.
^ "Survival International" .
^ "Countryside Alliance" .
^ "Hanbury-Tenison, (Airling) Robin, (Born 7 May 1936), farmer; President, Survival International (Chairman, since 1969)". Who's Who doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18867 . ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
^ Hanbury Tenison, M. Deep-Freeze Cookery . 2nd edition. London. Pan Books, 1972, p. i.
^ Robin Hanbury-Tenison Curriculum Vitae
^ "Robin Hanbury-Tenison" . Burke's Peerage.
^ "– Feature" . WonderLancer.
^ Smith, Nick (November 2006). "Robin Hanbury-Tenison" . Geographical.
^ Hanbury-Tenison, Robin (1991). Worlds Apart: An Explorer's Life . Arrow Books. pp. 115–128.
^ "Survival" . Business Destinations .
^ "Mulu Park Expedition" (PDF) . Royal Geographical Society .
^ "BFSS" . The Independent . 23 October 2011.
^ "Countryside March Reference" . Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
^ "80th Year" . Cornwall Living.
^ "8 Challenges" . Survival International.
^ "Veteran explorer, 84, who beat Covid-19 tops Cornish peak" . BBC News . 3 October 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020 .
^ "Desert Island Discs" . BBC. 1984.
^ United Kingdom list: "No. 48467" . The London Gazette
^ "National Theatre Exhibition" . Akehurst Creative Management.
^ "Horse Travels – Long Distance Riding" .
^ "The Long Riders Guild – Albania" .
^ "Book Review" . The Guardian . 15 January 2011.
^ "Penguin Children's Books" . Penguin.
^ Radio Times synopsis for broadcast on 17 September
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