The Life and Legacy of Mary Sibthorp
A talk by Sir Martin Holdgate

A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MARY MARGARET SIBTHORP OBE (1905-1991), INTERNATIONALIST AND PIONEER IN WORLD ECOLOGY

This event was held on Thursday 2nd November 2006 by The Croydon Society and the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society

The pioneer ecologist Mary Margaret Sibthorp OBE was one of the first people to recognise how humankind was damaging the environment. A woman of tremendous foresight, she started her ecological work in the early 1970s with an environmental study of the North Sea, a subject that is still current today. The Sibthorp Trust remains to continue what she began. The charity promotes the study of environmentalism and was founded with money left by Mary Sibthorp on her death in 1991.

She was a doughty fighter for her ideals and made full use of her many influential friends to propagate her concerns for the environment.

She lived at Charlton House, 173 Lower Addiscombe Road. Croydon is fortunate to have among its former residents a person of such character.

Principal Speaker: Sir Martin Holdgate CB, Former Director of the Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (UICN) and first Chairman of the Sibthorp Trust.

Introduced by Mr Andy Bebington, Hon Treasurer, The Croydon Society, and Executor of the Sibthorp Estate.

Read Prof Roger Crofts' address here

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