RICHARD LINDSAY
When he was five years old, Richard Lindsay disappeared. Having scoured the house, his mother found him in the garden, sitting under a cotoneaster bush and observing the wing structure of a blackbird.
As a child, the renowned peat expert was more interested in birds than plants or conservation. He even had a pet pigeon that hatched an egg under his bed. At school in Liverpool his classmates called him ‘Nature Boy’ and his biology master sent him on a young scientists’ research
