Which former Poet Laureate became the President for the Campaign to Protect Rural England in 2012?
Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family
Campaign to Protect Rural England CPRE promotes a large number of rural properties, by means of its annual Members' Guide. The 2012 Members Guide was supported by the National Farmers Union. Other CPRE people East of England North East North West South East South West West Midlands East Midlands Yorkshire and the Humber Campaign to Protect Rural England The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is a pressure group in England with over 40,000 members and supporters. Formed in 1926 by Sir Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development, the CPRE (until the 1960s the "Council for the Preservation of Rural England" and