TREVOR, Sir CHARLES GERALD (1882 - 1959), inspector of forests

Born 28 December 1882, son of Sir Francis Wollaston Trevor (of Trawscoed, Welshpool) and Mary Helen (née Mytton). He was educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. In 1903 he joined the Indian Forest Service as assistant conservator in Punjab. He was conservator of forests of the United Provinces in 1920 and became vice-president and Professor of Forestry at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun., in 1926, later becoming chief conservator of forests in Punjab and North West Frontier Province, 1930-33. He was Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India, 1933-37, having represented India at the Imperial Forestry Conferences in Canada in 1923, Australia and New Zealand in 1928, and South Africa in 1935. He published a Revised working plan for the Kulu forests (1920); with E.A. Smythies, Practical forest management (1923); and with H. G. Champion, A manual of Indian silviculture (1938). In 1937 he received a knighthood and retired to Trawscoed Hall, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, where he took an active interest in his dairy and sheep farm, Fron y Fele, Guilsfield, and became the owner of a prize-winning flock of Kerry Hill sheep. He was prominent in the National Farmers' Union and all agricultural activities. For 17 years he served as a magistrate, and was High Sheriff of his county in 1941. In 1912 he married Enid Carroll Beadon and had three daughters. He died 20 May 1959.

Author

• Dr Mary Auronwy James

Sources

• Who was who?
• The Montgomeryshire Express, 23 May 1959

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20751831

Published date: 2001

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