A Shropshire University has awarded honorary degrees to Sir Michael and Lady Morpurgo.
Lady Morpurgo with HRH The Princess Royal, Harper Adams Vice Chancellor Prof. Ken Sloan and Sir Michael Morpurgo
Each received their Honorary Doctorate for the work they have done over the past five decades to develop an interest in food and farming among young through their charity, Farms for City Children. "He has enthralled and informed children around the world with novels such as The Butterfly Lion, Why the Whales Came, Private Peaceful, and, of course, War Horse, perhaps his most well-known and well-loved work.
Professor Sloan told the assembled guests how the children who came to the farms often have very little or no experience of the countryside and so, drawing on Clare’s experiences of spending time in rural Devon as a child and exploring the countryside around her, Michael and Clare set out to enrich children’s lives by giving them personal experience of the natural world around them and of farming.
“The love of the countryside which began in my youth in the lanes of Devon led me to the setting up of Farms for City Children with Michael in 1976, and the same path brought us here today.”
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