Arthur Edward Smith CBE was a British conservation pioneer and English teacher from Lincolnshire.
Ted Smith came from a relatively poor background; his father Arthur was a plumber, and his parents ran a bakery and grocery shop.
[2] The nature conservation movement started as a very elite movement in the United Kingdom, led by wealthy aristocrats or academics such as Charles Rothschild who initially envisaged a national network of nature reserves.
[5] He was the first recipient of the Christopher Cadbury medal for nature conservation, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in 1999, and became an Officer of the Order of the Golden Ark in 2000.
[6] In 2012 he received a centenary award from the Wildlife Trusts, presented by his friend and colleague Sir David Attenborough.