Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier from 1978-86 and later helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes, acting as its first head fundraiser. He is the author of Liquid Gold:: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey (2020), Shearwater (2021), Across a Walking Land (2023) and Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows (2022). He is a founder member of the conservation charity Curlew Action. After leaving Oxford, Edward Norfolk worked as an accountant with Coopers & Lybrand before setting up his own bottled LPG gas company in London's East End which he sold nine years later; he then set up a waste management company before selling it to Viridor in 2002. He is currently involved with ten private equity start-up companies and on the board of some of them. He also spends a lot of his time running his family estate. As the Duke of Norfolk he is the most senior peer in England and owner of the Arundel Estate.
''The Return of the Grey Partridge' is magnificent, important, and should be required reading for everybody interested in saving Britain's nature.' - John Lewis-Stempel 'A full-hearted love song for a favourite British bird' - Mark Cocker, author of Our Place 'A moving and beautifully written story of one estate's restoration journey'' - Benedict MacDonald, author of Rebirding 'The truly inspiring story of bringing a bird back from the brink through dogged determination' - Jake Fiennes, author of Landhealer 'A fun and refreshingly readable tribute to an extraordinary conservation project' - Patrick Laurie, author of Native