Robert Hunter (National Trust) Robert Hunter (National Trust) Sir Robert Hunter (27 October 1844 – 6 November 1913) was a solicitor, civil servant and co-founder of the National Trust. From the 1860s Hunter was interested in conservation of public open spaces, and worked with other pioneers in this field, including Octavia Hill and Hardwicke Rawnsley. After acting as adviser to Hill in her campaigns to save Hampstead Heath and other open spaces, he worked with Rawnsley to save land in the English Lake District from industrial development. In 1893 the three campaigners agreed to set up a national body to acquire vulnerable properties and
Octavia Jordan Perry Octavia Jordan Perry Octavia Jordan Perry (1895–1991) was an American writer. She was born 21 April 1895 in Orange County, North Carolina, where her father was a country doctor. While a young child, she moved with her family to Durham, North Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and three years later married Charles W. Perry. In 1963, Perry published "My Head’s High for Proudness", a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina. She published "The Indian Bracelet", a children's story,