Elizabeth Henson
Born in 1958, Elizabeth Henson has an MA in zoology from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in domestic animal breeding from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1981 she has been involved within the management of Cotswold Farm Park.
Elizabeth has been secretary of the Castlemilk Moorit Sheep and Cotswold Sheep Societies and is currently secretary of the Gloucester Cattle andLonghorn Cattle Societies. A Founder Life and Council Member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, she has been a member of its Technical/Project Development Commitytee and its Breed Liason Committee. In 1985 she became the first executive director of the American Minor Breeds Conservancy, and carried out the first national census of breeds in the U.S.A.
She has been on various U.S. committees and, in 1992, published her manual on the "in situ Conservation of Livestock and Poultry" for the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. She is a founder Committee member of the National Farmers Union "Farms for Schools" organisation and is currently the Ministry of Agriculture Project Officer for their research into the genetic differences between breeds.