Royal Forestry Society
(1882-present)
group and society
Aged 142
Wikidata WikipediaThe Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is an educational charity and one of the oldest membership organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for those actively involved in woodland management. The RFS has a broad membership which includes woodland owners, managers, countryside professionals (land agents, ecologists, conservationists), academics, students and others with a general interest in woodland management. Membership is open to all.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
In this house on the 10th January 1882 the owner, John Robson, a nurseryman of Hexham, along with Henry Clark and other colleagues founded the English Arboricultural Society. The Society became the Royal Forestry Society with H.M. the Queen as Patron. It now has 4,000 members across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and twenty-five other countries worldwide.
, Hexham, United Kingdom where it was founded (1882)