Maureen Milgram Forrest

Maureen Milgram Forrest was the co-founder of LeicesterHERday Trust[1] and the original project director for the BRIT School in Croydon, London.[2] She is also known as Lillian Maureen Bernice Forrest.[3] She was born in London, England on 1 February 1938 and died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 1 March 2013.

Maureen Milgram Forrest
Born1 February 1938
London
DiedMarch 1, 2013(2013-03-01) (aged 75)
Victoria, British Columbia
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Other namesLillian Maureen Bernice Forrest
OccupationJournalist, theatrical director, charity director
Known forAwarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (2010)

Life

Born in London in 1938, she emigrated to Toronto with her parents in the 1950s, where she attended the University of Toronto, gaining a graduate degree in Leisure Service Administration.[4] She later moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she produced the musical The Wonder of it All at the Royal British Columbia Museum.[5] In 1987 she was awarded Victoria's Woman of the Year.

She returned to live in England in the late 1980s, where she was initially employed by the Leicester Mercury newspaper. She was director of the Ken Chamberlain Trust.[6]

In the late 1990s she was artistic director and chief executive of the Brewhouse Arts Centre in Burton upon Trent.[7][8]

In 2009 Forrest was a judge for the Leicester First award, and presented it to Stuart Berry at the Walkers Stadium along with footballer Alan Birchenall.[9]

She moved back to Victoria in 2010.

In 2010, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.[10]

Works
  • The INA Carlyle Winners of the Poetry Digest Love Poetry Competition 1994 (ed) (With Alan Forrest) ISBN 978-1-85473-012-1

References
  1. Sheila Perry, Pamela M. Moores (2007). International Women's Day: Reticences au Royaume-Uni. Femmes et médias: Le 8 mars à la une. Une comparaison internationale. Dossier. Presses Univ. du Mirail. pp. 37–50. ISBN 978-2-85816-879-8.
  2. Mark Featherstone-Witty (2001). Optimistic, Even Then: The Creation of Two Performing Arts Institute. School for Performing Arts Press. ISBN 978-0-9539423-0-5.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Victoria Times-Colonist, 7 March 2013.
  5. Mel Atkey, Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre, (2006) Natural Heritage Books, pp. 199–200.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Obituary, Leicester Mercury
  8. David McGillivray (1994). McGillivray's Theatre Guide. Rebecca Books. ISBN 978-0-9518922-2-0.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2010.

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