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Derek Coates Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (17 June 1918 – 21 November 2017) was a British member of the

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. He also served as a senior civil servant and agricultural expert. Barber was educated at the

Royal Agricultural College ;(from Virgil's Georgics)"Caring for the Fieldsand the Beasts" , established = 2013 - University status – College , type = Public , president = King Charles , vice_chancellor = Peter McCaffery , students ...

and served in the

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. He worked as a farmer in

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before serving in various posts at the

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister ...

1946–72. Since then he took various advisory roles on countryside and agricultural matters, including to the government and

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. He served as Chairman and later President of the

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; President of the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society; President of the

Royal Agricultural Society of England The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture. It was established in 1838 with the motto "Practice with Science" and received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1840. RASE is bas ...

; President of the

British Pig Association The National Pig Association is the trade association for the pig industry in the UK. History It was formed in October 1999 from the British Pig Association commercial committee and the NFU pig committee. British pig industry The British pig in ...

; and a Vice-President of the

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Trust. Barber was knighted in the 1984 Birthday Honours and was created a life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, ''of

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in the County of

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

'', on 12 August 1992. He was chairman of the

Countryside Commission The Countryside Commission (formally the Countryside Commission for England and Wales, then the Countryside Commission for England) was a statutory body in England and Wales, and later in England only. Its forerunner, the National Parks Commissio ...

from 1981 to 1991. He was a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his retirement on 25 March 2016.

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for 22 November 2017 announced that he had died the day before. He was 99.

References

1918 births 2017 deaths Knights Bachelor Barber of Tewkesbury, Derek Barber, Baron Civil servants in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University Royal Society for the Protection of Birds people {{life-peer-stub