Isabella Tree Explained

Isabella Tree
Mother:Lady Anne Tree
Relatives:Edward Cavendish (grandfather)
Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother)
Ronald Tree (grandfather)
Nancy Lancaster (grandmother)
Education:University of London
Occupation:Conservationist, writer
Spouse:Charles Burrell
Children:2

Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964) is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award-winning book Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm that describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3500abbr=offNaNabbr=off wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.

Early life

Tree attended Millfield School.[1] She was adopted by an aristocratic British family as a baby. She read Classics, following the advice of author Iris Murdoch and went the University of London.[2]

Career

From 1993 to 1995, Tree was, a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.[3] In 1999 she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards for a feature on Nepal's Kumaris, or "Living Goddesses"  - "High and Mighty"  - for the Sunday Times.[4] As of 2022 she writes for The Guardian and National Geographic Magazine.

Personal life

She married Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex. Her father was the son of Ronald Tree and a member of a well connected Anglo-American family active in politics and public life on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Her mother was Lady Anne Tree, youngest daughter of the 10th Duke of Devonshire. She has two children, one of whom is called Nancy and researches rewilding at Oxford University.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notable Alumni . . 26 October 2022.
  2. Web site: Blanchard . Tamsin . Isabella Tree . 2023-10-25 . thegentlewoman.co.uk . en.
  3. Web site: Isabella Tree. rolfpotts.com. November 2003 . 26 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Biography. isabellatree.com. 16 September 2016.
  5. Web site: Prestigious awards honour stars of conservation science | ZSL .
  6. Web site: Wilding. Wainwright Prize.
  7. Web site: Richar Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literature Prize 2018.
  8. Web site: Ten Best Science Books 2018. Smithsonian.
  9. Book: Frances Mayes. Jason Wilson. The Best American Travel Writing 2002. 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 0-618-11880-2. 347–.
  10. Web site: Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women?. Chipping Norton Literature Festival.
  11. Web site: CIEEM Medal Winners 2020 – John Hopkins & Isabella Tree CIEEM. September 2020 . 2021-08-13. en.
  12. Web site: Royal Geographical Society – 2021 Awards. 2021-08-13. www.rgs.org.

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