OBE. BSc., PhD., Hon:- FLS,. FIBiol., DSc., DUniv., FIBiol., FCIWEM Hon (born 1933) is an English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. He attended Sutton County Grammar School, Sutton, Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Bedford College, all in London. He was brought up as a strict Baptist. Bellamy and his wife Rosemary, whom he maried when he was 19, have five children - four are adopted. He originally trained as a botanist at Durham University, where he later held the post of senior lecturer in botany until 1982. He is still their Honorary Preofessor for Adult and Continuing Education.
He first came to public prminence as an envoironmental cibsultant at the time of the Torrey Canyon disaster.
In 1983, he was jailed for blockading the Franklin River in protest at a proposed dam.
He has been the writer and presenter of some 400 television programmes on Botany, Ecology and Environment.
In 1997, he stood against John Major for the anti-European Referendum party.
He is the originator along, with David Shreeve and The Conservation Foundation (which he also founded), of the Ford European Conservation Awards and has published over 80 scientific papers.
