Cyril Edwin Hart
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Cyril Edwin Hart OBE (22 March 1913 – 9 May 2009) was an English forestry expert, author, and historian.
He was appointed as one of the four verderers of the Forest of Dean in 1952, and was the longest serving Senior Verderer of Verderer's Court, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was generally regarded as the preeminent expert on medieval forest law and lore in the Forest of Dean. Hart acted as a forestry consultant throughout the UK and was the chairman of nursery and sawmill companies. His textbook Practical Forestry for the Agent and Surveyor[1] was used as a main reference work by generations of forestry students, and his illustrated work British Trees in Colour[2] remains popular with those with a general interest in British trees and forestry.