Maureen Milgram Forrest

Maureen Milgram Forrest (1 February 1938 in London, England – 1 March 2013 in 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 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

  1. ↑ http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/bcgaz1/bcgaz1/112581399
  2. ↑ Victoria Times-Colonist, 7 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Mel Atkey, Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre, (2006) Natural Heritage Books, p199-200.
  4. ↑ http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/rothley/hotel-and-hide.html
  5. ↑ Obituary, Leicester Mercury
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.


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