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3 unusual facts about forester


Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester

he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from his cousin George Forester.

George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester

He died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church.

John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester

Lord Forester died childless at Willey Hall in October 1874, aged 73, and was buried at Willey parish church.


Alfred Abel

In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon Mittweida.

An Inconvenient Truth 2

Advice & Support: Kate Forester, Jessica Storr, Diensen Palbarn, Adam Bennet, Chris Walker, Natasha Bondi, Rupert Read, Paul Nasse, Doug Lyon, Tom Tapper.

Bechstein

Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757 – 1822), a German naturalist and forester.

Berthold Ribbentrop

Berthold Ribbentrop was a pioneering forester from Germany who worked in India with Sir Dietrich Brandis and others.

Blairquhan Castle

The late James Hunter Blair (1926–2004), younger brother and heir presumptive of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet (1920-2006), was a noted horticulturalist and forester who spent most of his life restoring the castle and preserving the estate grounds, which includes hundreds-year old trees.

Carl A. Schenck

Carl Alwyn Schenck (March 25, 1868 – May 17, 1955) was a pioneering forestry educator in North America, known for his contributions as the forester for George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate, and the founder of the Biltmore Forest School, the first practical forestry school in the United States, in 1898, near Asheville, NC.

Conservation in the United States

The largest section of the reserve was later renamed Shoshone National Forest, and it is the oldest National Forest in the U.S. But it was not until 1898 when German forester Dr. Carl A. Schenck, on the Biltmore Estate, and Cornell University founded the first two forestry schools, both run by Germans.

Country life movement

Other members of the commission included agricultural scientist and sociologist Kenyon L. Butterfield, forester Gifford Pinchot, and future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace.

Craig-y-Don

On the hillside above Queen's Road is the North Wales Medical Centre, built in 1902 as Lady Forester's Convalescent Home (in memory of the 3rd Baron Forester) and since 1977 offering private medical treatment.

Danuta Siedzikówna

Danuta Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings, Wiesława (1927–2004) and Irena (1931? - 1978), in the forester's lodge near Guszczewina (when were exiled Wacław they moved to Narewka), the girls attended grammar school in Narewka until 1939.

Dick Christian

"Only Dick Christian," answers Lord Forester, "& it is nothing new to him." "But he'll be drowned", exclaims Lord Kinnaird.

Ekkodalen

He established and named Hans Christian Ørsted's spring and he built Ekkodalen's half-timbered property, Rømersdal, which is still the residence of the State Forester.

Fernow Experimental Forest

It is named for Bernhard Fernow, a prominent forester in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

George Myers

George Hewitt Myers (1875–1957), American forester and philanthropist

Hans Friedrich Geitel

Through the relocation of his family, his father was a forester, Hans Geitel came to Blankenburg in 1861 and grew up in close proximity to Julius Elster.

Henry Herford

Notable among his roles are the Count (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo and Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte), the title role in Don Giovanni, Germont (La Traviata), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Smirnov (William Walton's The Bear), and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream), which he recorded for Virgin Records.

Henryk Pachulski

Of noble birth, he was born the son of a surveyor and forester, in Łazy, near Siedlce, Poland.

Herschel Forester

Herschel Vincent Forester (born April 14, 1931 in Dallas, Texas) is a former professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League.

Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower, a fictional officer of the British Royal Navy created by C.S. Forester

Inverey

John Lamont a highly regarded astronomer was born at Corriemulzie near Inverey the son of Robert Lamont (forester to James, 2nd Earl Fife) and his wife Elizabeth Ewan.

Josef Ressel

He worked for the Austrian government as a forester in the more southern parts of the monarchy, including in Motovun, Istria (modern-day Croatia).

Kopskiekelwein

Popular pubs where the wine was available included the Forester's Lodge in Moditten and the Vierbrüderkrug Inn in Metgethen, both located in the suburbs of Königsberg.

Margaret Flockton

Margaret Lilian Flockton (29 September 1861 Sussex - 12 August 1953 Sydney), was an Australian botanical artist, particularly noted for her illustrating of "The Forest Flora of New South Wales" (some 300 plates), "A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus" (88 plates), and the genus Opuntia, all by the botanist and forester, Joseph Henry Maiden.

Norman Baillie-Stewart

In 1944, Baillie-Stewart had himself sent to Vienna for medical treatment, where he was arrested in 1945 in Altaussee, while wearing "chamois leather shorts, embroidered braces and a forester's jacket" and was sent to Britain to face charges of high treason.

Peter Garthwaite

Peter Fawcitt Garthwaite who was born 22 October 1909, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England and died 13 May 2001, Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England, was a forester who worked in a wide range of settings - imperial and national, public and private.

Post-captain

Being "made post" is portrayed as the most crucial event in an officer's career in both Forester's Horatio Hornblower series and O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.

Reinier van Oldenbarnevelt

Reinier became forester of Holland and lived in the Slot Teylingen at Voorhout.

Richard Glazar

While on the run, Glazar and Unger were arrested by a forester, but they managed to convince him that they were Czechs working for “Organisation Todt” (a Nazi construction and engineering group in Poland).

Riders of the Whistling Pines

Wright has dismantled the plane, and when the locals leave, he captures Gene and Forester Jerry (Jerry Scoggins).

Sir William Forester

William Forester succeeded to Dothill Park in about 1675 under the will of his helf-brother Richard Steventon (died 1659) and this became the main family seat at least until his grandson obtained Willey Park by marrying the heiress of George Weld.

Subaru Forester

As part of the US market launch of 2014 Subaru Forester, the 'Dog Tested. Dog Approved.' campaign returned, featuring an all-new cast of canines making their television debut during Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl IX, which included Grant Weber, a Subaru canine Sales Associate, who sells Subaru vehicles to dogs.

Thomas Gill

Thomas Harvey Gill (1891–1972), American forester, fiction and non-fiction author, and editor of psychiatry journal

William Forester

William Forester married Catherine daughter and heiress of William Brooke of Clerkenwell.

William H. Purvis

In 1887, Purvis hired Scottish arboriculturalist David McHattie Forbes from his position as Foreman Forester of the estate of Fletcher's Saltoun Hall to import and cultivate cinchona trees above the sugar line in Kukuihaele, Hawaii at the Pacific Sugar Mill.

William Julius Eggeling

William Julius Eggeling (18 July 1909 Upper Largo, Fife - 10 February 1994 Perth) was a Scottish-born forester, botanist and naturalist.


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