Garth Christian

Garth Hood Christian (2 August 1921 – 26 November 1967) was an English nature writer, editor, teacher and conservationist.

Life Christian was born in 1921 to Rev. Frederick Ewan Christian and Ethel Marian Trower Rogers in the Riddings, Derbyshire vicarage which had been occupied by his father and maternal grandfather, Rev. Henry Rogers, for almost 50 years. He was a member of the same family as Fletcher Christian. At the age of 18, he began contributing to The Guardians "Miscellany" column.

After becoming a full-time freelance writer, he wrote for newspapers and magazines including the Birmingham Post, Birmingham Evening Mail, Nottingham Guardian, The Times, Country Life and New Scientist. one of which, Down the Long Wind, had a jacket illustrated by Peter Scott.

Positions

Nature conservator, Chailey Common Council member, Sussex Archaeological Society Council member, Sussex Naturalists' Trust County Secondary School governor