Hilda Murrell (1906 - March 21, 1984) was a rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy.

A pupil at Shrewsbury High School, she later studied at Newnham College, Cambridge

She was a founder member of the Shropshire Conservation Trust (later Shropshire Wildlife Trust) and of the Shropshire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England

Murder

She was murdered in mysterious circumstances; she was stabbed several times, but died from hypothermia, after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home.

She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who passed the order for the sinking of the Argentinian ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to some conspiracy theories about her death.

She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative stone was unveiled in Tanybryn in 2004.

The case was re-opened in 2002, and in 2003, Andrew George, who was 16 when Miss Murrell died, appeared in court, charged with her kidnap and murder.

Bibliography

Hilda Murrell's Nature Diaries, 1961-1983, edited by Charles Skinner, Collins, 1987, ISBN 0-00-412186-4

External link

• BBC: "Man in court over Murrell death" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3557909.stm)