from The Marine Biological Association
Sir Crispin Tickell, MBA President, 1990 to 2001
Sir Crispin Tickell, a career diplomat and environmentalist who led the MBA from 1990 to 2001, passed away on January 25th 2022 aged 91. Professor Mike Whitfield MBA director from 1987 – 1999 noted that Sir Crispin was a “strong and energetic leader”. A full obituary can be found here.
From the Guardian newspaper:
Sir Crispin Tickell…
When John Major was desperate for a big idea to present to the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 to help the UK seem visionary, Tickell reached into his briefcase and pulled out his plan for the Darwin Initiative, a scheme to protect biodiversity in the poorest countries. He had been working on the idea for some time and been waiting for the right moment to appear. Major was delighted with it, the scheme was launched in a speech at Rio and Tickell became the first chair of its advisory committee.
He found time in 1996 to write a biography of Mary Anning, the now celebrated Lyme Regis fossil hunter who was his great-great aunt, and he continued to give lectures on a variety of subjects well into his 80s. ( image above)
