Education
Westminster school, Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Roger Martin
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VSO Northern Rhodesia, 1959-1960. Civil rights campaigner in Alabama, 1963. Commonwealth Office, 1964-1966.
Second Secretary, Djakarta, 1967.
Saigon,1968-1970; First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1971-1974. Geneva, 1975-1979; Seconded to Department of Trade, as Head of Middle East/North Africa Branch, Deputy High Commissioner, Harare, 1983-1986, resigned in fury.
Author "The Price of Apartheid" (Public EIU 1988). Visiting Fellow University of Bath Director, Somerset Wildlife Trust, 1988-2001 Vice President from 2001, Member, Flood Defence and Pollution Committees, Environment Agency, 1990-2012.
Southwest panel, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1993-1997.
Southwest Committee, Heritage Lottery Fund, 2001-2006. Exmoor National Park Authority: Member,1998-2008. Trustee, 2003-2007. Southwest Regional Chair, Campaign to Protect Rural England 2001-2006.
National Trustee 2003-2007.
President Somerset Branch 2006- President, Mendip Society, 2001-2009 On 13 December 2010, he appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation News programme "" to discuss his Trust"s stance.
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Membership
Member of National Executive, VSO, 1988-1996.
