Andrew Raven, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Andrew Raven

British conservationist

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1959

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2005

Profession: conservationist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Andrew Owen Earle Raven OBE (22 January 1959 – 4 October 2005) was a British conservationist and an influential contributor to modern land policy in Scotland.
The eldest son of John Raven, a Cambridge University classics don, and grandson of Charles E.
Raven, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, he developed professional expertise in land management.
He was a trustee of the John Muir Trust from 1989 to 1995, a time when the charity started to acquire land in the Scottish Highlands.
In 1995 he became their Director of Land Management.
In 1992 he became a member of the Council of the Rural Forum, a highly influential group which for the first time brought together rural communities and Scottish policy-makers.
Three years later he joined the Scottish Consumer Council, seeing himself there as the voice of rural Scotland in consumer affairs.
In 2000, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Forestry Commission, becoming the chairman of its National Committee for Scotland in 2003.
Raven was awarded an OBE in 2005. He died of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 46 on 4 October 2005.