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Arthur Wannop
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'''Arthur Robson Wannop''' OBE [[FRSE]] (1900–1972) was a 20th-century British agriculturalist and authority on hill-farming.
He was the first Director of the Hill Farming Research Organisation and was a principle deviser of the '''[[Hill Farming Act 1946]]'''.
==Life==
He was born on 1 August 1900 at Little Blencow Farm near [[Greystoke, Cumbria|Greystoke]] in [[Cumberland]] the son of Thomas Wannop, a farmer, and his wife Esther Ann Robson. He was educated at [[Blencow]] Grammar School and the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in [[Penrith]]. He then went to [[Liverpool University]] to study Engineering, graduating BEng in 1920. He then took a second degree in Agriculture at [[Aberdeen University]] graduating BSc in 1922.<ref>https://ift.tt/2FsLvjb>
He then worked as an agricultural advisor from 1922 to 1932, serving variously in centres in [[Fife]] and the [[Scottish Borders]]. In 1932 he moved to [[Northumberland]]. In 1935 he became Director of County Work for the North of Scotland College of Agriculture in [[Aberdeen]]. In 1948 he became Scientific Advisor to the [[Department of Agriculture for Scotland]].
In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[Sir Patrick Laird]], [[Stephen Watson (agriculturalist)|Stephen Watson]], [[Edward Wyllie Fenton]], and [[Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
In 1953 he became the first Director of the Hill Farming Research Association.
In 1957 [[Edwin Porter Arrowsmith]] asked the UK government to send a hill-farming advisor to the [[Falkland Islands]]. The government chose Wannop and this trip was eventually organised from October 1960 to January 1961. This resulted in the '''Wannop Report 1961'''.
He retired in 1965 and died in [[Edinburgh]] on 11 September 1972 aged 72.
==Family==
He was married to Helann Wyse. They had three children including the regional planner and author Prof [[Urlan Wannop]], Ann and Ewen.
==References==
[[Category:1900 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:British agriculturalists]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Aberdeen]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]]
March 24, 2019 at 09:20AM
