Nicholas Guppy

Nicholas Gareth Lechmere Guppy (22 December 1925 – 16 May 2012) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British botanist, writer, environmentalist, explorer,

Early life and education Guppy was born in Port-of-Spain 22 December 1925 to Gareth and Marjorie Guppy. His father Gareth was the son of Lechmere Guppy (after whom the guppy is named) and Alice , the daughter of a local white family.

Between 1933 and 1936 the family lived in Saint Ann's in Port of Spain, near the Royal Botanic Gardens. Guppy and his mother emigrated to England in 1938 after the death of his father from malaria. In response to this article, Guppy and his friend Francis Huxley wrote a letter to The Sunday Times entitled "A wild life fund for humans is needed". Guppy, Huxley, John Hemming, and Robin Hanbury-Tenison founded the Primitive Peoples’ Fund that year, which was later renamed Survival International. in a financial crisis at Lloyd's in the late 1980s. In revenge, his son Darius later staged a fake robbery in revenge and collected £1.8 million in a fraudulent insurance payout from Lloyds.

Personal life Guppy married Shusha Assar, an Iranian-born writer and musician, in 1962. The couple had two sons, Darius and Constantine, and divorced in 1976. Guppy married twice more, and was survived by his third wife, Anna.

Guppy moved to Bali in 2004 and died there on 16 May 2012.