Farewell to passionate advocate for wildlife management in the British countryside, aged 85

Farewell to passionate advocate for wildlife management in the British countryside, aged 85

Lewis Thomas pictured right.By David Renney Lewis Hartland Thomas, the co-founder of Vets for Hunting, later the Veterinary Association for Wildlife Management (VAWM), has died aged 85. Lewis was born in Bath, where his mother, Alex, was an evacuee from London during the war. His father, Mark Hartland Thomas, was an architect. He attended Westminster School in London, then Trinity College, Dublin, briefly to read classics. Questioned by his fath…