Edmund Marriage

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Edmund Marriage (born 28 February 1941) is the director of the Patrick Foundation and British Wildlife Management. He is a researcher, lobbyist and lecturer.

Edmund was born in Chipping Ongar, Essex and attended Uppingham School. He was educated and qualified as a Chartered Land Agent and as an Associate of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (ARICS) at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester between 1959 and 1964 and as a Member of the Royal Agricultural College MRAC in 1962. He attended the one year postgraduate farm business administration course at Wye College, London University in 1964 to 1965.

He lobbies on a range of issues such as driver training through the “Quality Driving Initiative” and a Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) treatment of addiction program called “Healing Addiction Without Drugs”. In 1988 he instigated the “City Research Project”, funded by the City of London Corporation, in order to address a range of issues facing the City of London and the Economy. He is a former national vice-chairman and director of research for the Conservative Rural Action Group and has been a member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs "Partnership Against Wildlife Crime" since inception and for over twenty years has been a member of the Standing Conference for Countryside Sports. He is a member of the National Gamekeepers Organisation Deer Committee and was a founder director of the charity Songbird Survival. He was the founder of British Wildlife Management in 1995, which was established to lobby Parliament and other organizations for best practice in Countryside and Wildlife Management, specializing in Animal welfare science. His research amongst a range of submissions to Government Departments between 1995 and 2012 including the "Wildlife Welfare Equation", setting out the parameters for comparing suffering between different methods of killing and capturing wild animals in order to allow clear decisions to be made on conducting humane wildlife management.

He established the Patrick Foundation to promote and continue the work of Christian O'Brien and Barbara Joy O'Brien in 1998, now based in Ledbury, Herefordshire, United Kingdom. Christian O'Brien died aged 87 in 2001. Barbara Joy O'Brien, Edmund's aunt, still plays an active part in the continuing research. 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 claimed discovery by O'Brien of the 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.