Author of morepeaceful.world/
Dr Richard Lawson (b. 1946) is a retired GP and psychiatrist author of ‘Bills of Health’ Radcliffe and ‘In the Key of Blue’, a volume of poetry.
In 1983 he called a village meeting in his practice in North Somerset, set out the effects that a nuclear war would probably have on the village, explained that as there would be no availability of medicines or supplies, the only relief he could provide would be by lethal pills. The village voted overwhelmingly in favour of this solution, but the GMC frowned on it.
He was elected to Woodspring District Council in 1986, one of the first two Green Party candidates to be elected (Green now have 1000 councillors), mainly working with environmental health officers, and on a survey of empty housing in the area. He retired undefeated after 6 years due to the financial ant time pressures of combining Council and Medical work. He was a co-Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for a few months In 1992, and then Health Speaker.
He has been a hang glider pilot in the early days of Rogallo wings (both of his sons are paraglider pilots) and also of sand yachts. He is given to inventing things both physical and social, notably the Bramblehook, which the Patents office dismissed as “a knife on a stick”. He is active in the Nuclear Weapons Group (NWG) of MEDACT, a medical campaigning organisation which is affiliated to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War which won a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1985. It is his experience in the NWG that led him to create this website.
Richard Is married to Nicky, has three children, Freya, Joseph and Laurence, three grand children, plays flute (mainly O’Carolan and J S Bach), works with wood, used a scythe, and tends land on the edge of a wood.
A More Peaceful World 