Edmund Marriage
Edmund Marriage
Edmund Marriage speaking
Edmund Marriage (28th February 1941 - 26th October 2021) was the director of the Patrick Foundation and an independent researcher, lobbyist and lecturer. [1]
Early Life & Education
Marriage was born in Chipping Ongar, Essex and attended Uppingham School. He qualified as a chartered land agent and as an Associate of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (ARICS) at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester in 1959 to 1962 and as a member of the Royal Agricultural College MRAC 1962. He attended the one year postgraduate farm business administration course at Wye College, London University 1964 -5. [1]
Lobbying
Marriage lobbied on a range of issues such as Driver training through the “Quality Driving Initiative” to wildlife management. In 1988 he instigated the “City Research Project”, funded by the City of London Corporation, in order to address a range of important issues facing the City of London and the Economy. He was a former national vice-chairman and director of research for the Conservative Rural Action Group. He attended as a partner the Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs’s “Partnership Against Wildlife Crime” since inception and for over twenty five years was a member of the Standing Conference for Countryside Sports. He was a member of the National Gamekeepers Organisation Deer Committee and was a founder director of the charity Songbird Survival. He founded British Wildlife Management in 1995 to lobby the British Parliament and other organisations for best practice in Countryside and Wildlife Management, specialising on Animal welfare science. His notable research amongst a range of submissions to Government Departments between 1995 and 2012, includes the Wildlife Welfare Equation, which sets out the parameters for comparing suffering between different methods of killing and capturing wild animals, to allow clear decisions to be made on conducting humane wildlife management. [1]
The Patrick Foundation
Marriage established the Patrick Foundation to promote and continue the work of his Uncle; Christian O'Brien and Aunt Barbara Joy O’Brien in 1998.[32] Christian O’Brien died aged 87 in 2001. Barbara Joy, Edmund’s aunt played an active part in the continuing research until her death in 2017. The foundation takes on a number of research projects. Under the auspices of The Golden Age Project it runs a website by that name devoted to historical research. It focuses on the promotion and continued research into the discovery by O'Brien of the Hursag / Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) / Garden of Eden archaeological site in the Aaiha plain, Lebanon. The foundation has organized several video lectures available online and an exploratory survey of the suggested archaeological site. [1]