1. Robin James Edwin Bush was the resident historian for the first nine series of Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team, appearing in 39 episodes between 1994 and 2003.
23 Facts About Robin Bush
1. 2.
Robin Bush presented eight episodes of Time Team Extra in 1998.
3.
For twelve years Bush was a Liberal Democrat member of Somerset County Council and served as chairman of the council from 2001 until 2005.
4.
Robin Bush's father was originally a schoolmaster and then a training college lecturer in Mathematics.
5.
Robin Bush attended the private Exeter School in Devon between 1950 and 1962, and it was here aged 13 that he first became interested in historical research while studying the school's history.
6.
Robin Bush won a Trevelyan Scholarship, followed by a Stapledon Exhibition and later still a State Scholarship, to read History at Exeter College, Oxford, taking his BA in Modern History in 1965 and an MA in 1984.
7.
From 1970 to 1978 Robin Bush was assistant editor of the Somerset Victoria County History, writing much of the content of three of its volumes.
8.
Robin Bush wrote his first book in 1977, and produced volumes on the history of Taunton, Exmouth and Wellington, followed by a series of books on the county of Somerset.
9.
Robin Bush researched emigration from the South West of England to New England between 1620 and 1645, which led to the publication of three further books in Ohio.
10.
Robin Bush became involved with the Time Team programmes through his long friendship with Mick Aston when Aston was Somerset's first county field archaeologist.
11.
Robin Bush appeared in Channel 4's series Joe Public, for which he researched the loss of a hat jewel by Henry VIII.
12.
Robin Bush appeared regularly as resident historian on Revealing Secrets for Multi Media, transmitted on Channel 4 on weekdays from 26 March to 4 July 2001.
13.
Robin Bush lived in Taunton with his wife, Hilary Margaret Marshall, whom he married in 1993.
14.
Robin Bush performed regularly in amateur dramas, musicals and grand opera productions throughout West Somerset, and in 1991,1994 and 1997 he helped to judge the grand finals of the World Public Speaking and Debating Championships.
15.
From May 1997 until June 2009 Robin Bush served as a Liberal Democrat member of Somerset County Council, serving as chairman of the council from 2001 until 2005.
16.
Robin Bush was vice chairman of the county's Information and Leisure Board and vice chairman of the Community, Leisure and Information Review Committee, chairman of the Regulation Committee and chairman of both the Somerset Cultural Forum and Somerset Cultural Executive.
17.
Robin Bush was vice chairman of the South West Museums Council and served as a board member of Culture South West, Arts Council England South West and the South West Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
18.
Robin Bush was a member of the council and court of the University of Bristol and of the courts of the University of Bath and the University of Exeter.
19.
Robin Bush was one of four patrons of Wessex Actors Company, with the Marquess of Bath, Lord Tom King and the late Ned Sherrin, 2002 to 2010.
20.
Robin Bush was president of the Somerset Art Gallery Trust and the Somerset Youth Partnership, and vice president and trustee of the Somerset Community Foundation.
21.
Robin Bush died on 22 June 2010, aged 67, after a long period of illness.
22.
Robin Bush is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas's Church, Corfe, in Somerset.
23.
Double audiocassettes of Robin Bush retelling Tales of Old Somerset, Halsgrove Productions, Tiverton, Devon.