Chiswick Environmentalist Picks Up His MBE
David Shreeve received honour from the Prince of Wales
The whole Shreeve family with, from left, daughter Alice-Louise, wife Jacqui, David and son Rupert
February 14, 2024
A man from Chiswick was at Windsor Castle last week to collect an MBE awarded to him in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
With King Charles currently recuperating, the Prince of Wales stepped in to host an investiture which included presenting the award to The Conservation Foundation’s co-founder and Director, David Shreeve.
It was for given or David’s services to the environment since setting up the Foundation in 1982 along with the late Professor David Bellamy, the TV personality, and his role of environmental advisor to the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England.
The Foundation has created and managed a large number of programmes, projects and award schemes covering a wide range of environmental issues in association with businesses, the media, prisons, trade associations and official bodies.
Over the years it collected a unique archive of environmental books and publications which has been presented to the University of Kent as part of the Foundation’s 40th anniversary celebrations
He was included in the first of the King’s Birthday Honours announced last June. David was joined at the ceremony by his wife Jacqui, his daughter Alice-Louise and son Rupert.
David told the Prince how fitting it was to be given the award at Windsor as a planting organised by him in 1980 of a disease resistant elm led to the launch of the Foundation two years later. The tree continues to thrive.
‘Great British Elms’, which David has co-written with Mark Seddon, will be published by Kew Publishing this autumn.
At the end of their discussion the Prince said how much he had appreciated David’s good wishes for the health of both the Princess of Wales and the King.
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