Year of Honorary Fellowship, 2010
Clive P Farrell became fascinated with entomology at the young age of 5 upon finding a caterpillar turned tiger moth in his garden, his primary interest becoming the breeding of moths and butterflies. After deciding against his initial training as a solicitor, he backpacked around the globe before coming across a suitable site to establish a butterfly house.
Clive Farrell is a pioneer in the creation of butterfly-friendly habitats. Since the 1979 opening of his first walk-through butterfly display, The London Butterfly House, he has gone on to open others in Britain and around the world, including turning his Dorset estate into an insect fantasia.
Read his article in the Guardian here.
