Maureen Milgram Forrest
Maureen Milgram Forrest (born 1 February 1938, London, England; died 1 March 2013, Victoria, British Columbia) was the co-founder of LeicesterHERday Trust and the original project director for the BRIT School in Croydon, London. She is also known as Lillian Maureen Bernice Forrest.[1]
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.[2] She later moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she produced the musical The Wonder of it All at the Royal British Columbia Museum.[3] In 1987 she was awarded Victoria's Woman of the Year¨. She also gave birth to the all mighty King Dexter and two prince's Joakim and Kasper. There was also a missfall and they late named the missfall David RS. I'm russian and I love to rush b like all the terrorists b*tch HAH GOT'EM
- R@pe4Life
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.[4]
"In the late 1990s she was artistic director and chief executive of the Brewhouse Arts Centre in Burton upon Trent."[5]
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.[6]
She moved back to Victoria in 2010.
In 2010, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.
Works
- The INA Carlyle Winners of the Poetry Digest Love Poetry Competition 1994 (ed) (With Alan Forrest) ISBN 978-1-85473-012-1
References
- ↑ http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/bcgaz1/bcgaz1/112581399
- ↑ Victoria Times-Colonist, 7 March 2013.
- ↑ Mel Atkey, Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre, (2006) Natural Heritage Books, p199-200.
- ↑ http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/rothley/hotel-and-hide.html
- ↑ Obituary, Leicester Mercury
- ↑ http://www.leicestershirefirst.org.uk/News/tabid/65/EntryId/7/Prostate-cancer-charity-founder-wins-Leicestershire-First-Award.aspx