Name John Dower Role Architect | Died October 3, 1947 | |
John Gordon Dower (2 September 1900 – 3 October 1947) was a civil servant and architect, who, as secretary of the Standing Committee on National Parks, produced in 1945 the first post-war official report which set out what National Parks in England and Wales should be like:
This report, and a subsequent one by Sir Arthur Hobhouse, laid the foundations for the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which created the National Park system.
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