Cyril Edwin Hart OBE (22 March 1913 – 9 May 2009) was an English forestry expert, author, and historian.
In 1976 he received an MSc from the University of Oxford presenting a thesis Practical Private Forestry in a Changing Environment.
[3][4] After the Second World War, Hart worked for Major Charles Penrhyn Ackers, ex High Sheriff of Gloucestershire and owner of the Huntley Estate and Huntley Manor, first as land agent and later as manager of Forest Products Ltd and Woodland Improvement Ltd, companies associated with the estate.
[4] Hart was inspired by Major Ackers who had a national reputation as a silviculturist, was the author of a standard book on forestry, and planted specimens of many varieties in the park of his home at Huntley Manor.
[5] In postwar years he became chairman of Forest of Dean Newspapers, a privately owned company which published the local papers covering the area.
[5] Returning to his historical research, in 1967 he published Archaeology in Dean: a tribute to Dr C Scott-Garrett, MBE.
After being accused of lacking the common touch in his writing, he produced Coleford: The History of a West Gloucestershire town (1983).