Garth Christian

Garth Hood Christian (2 August 1921 – 26 November 1967) was an English nature writer, editor, teacher and conservationist.

Frederick Ewan Christian and Ethel Marian Trower Rogers in the Riddings, Derbyshire vicarage which had been occupied by his father and maternal grandfather, Rev.

[3] He wrote a number of books on conservation and ornithology,[3][4] one of which, Down the Long Wind, had a jacket illustrated by Peter Scott.

[3] As a school governor, he took the unusual step of becoming an honorary (unpaid) teacher of biology, one afternoon a week.

[3] He died suddenly, aged 46, at his home in Beggar's Wood, North Chailey, Sussex.