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He lived in Barton, Cambridgeshire and died on May 27th.

Not to be confused with the female Colorado illustrator, who was born the same year - 1943.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Page_(journalist)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1697164/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/05/31/robin-page-one-man-and-his-dog-outspoken-died-obituary/
(paywall)

"Robin Page, One Man and His Dog presenter and forthright commentator on country matters – obituary

"His writing and advocacy were based on a lifetime of farming and informed by his nostalgia for a vanished way of life

"Robin Page, who has died aged 80, was, he said, a 'traditional countryman'; he achieved renown as much for his trenchant views as for presenting BBC Two’s sheepdog trials programme One Man and His Dog, a series based upon the guaranteed stupidity of sheep..."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-65769684

By Peter Walker
BBC News, Cambridgeshire

The conservationist and former BBC television presenter Robin Page has died at the age of 80.

Mr Page, from Barton near Cambridge, published the critically-acclaimed The Decline of the English Village in 1974.

He set up the Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT) in 1993 in response to what the charity said was concerns about intensive, industrialised farming and its impact on wildlife.

The CRT said he was a "countryside champion with a maverick spirit".

Mr Page became a familiar face on television when he presented the BBC's One Man and his Dog in the 1990s.

He became one of the first councillors on South Cambridgeshire District Council, representing the Barton ward from 1973 until 2006, and again when representing Haslingfield from 2012 to 2016 as an independent.

The campaigner wrote regular newspaper columns, including for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

In his younger days he played football for a team in Barton and as a wicketkeeper for Comberton Cricket Club.

He hosted the former Prince of Wales, King Charles III, as CRT chairman at Lark Rise Farm in Barton in 2003.
'Absolute rascal'

"A countryside champion with a maverick spirit, Robin's fervent beliefs were amplified by his writing in publications such as the Daily Telegraph," said a CRT spokesperson.

"Although in recent times he was no longer involved in our operations, we are all reflecting on his role in creating a robust charity that remains focused on promoting sustainable farming and reconnecting people with the wider countryside."

Fellow farmer and author, James Rebanks, described him as an "absolute rascal" and a "force of nature".

Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith said Mr Page's book had a "huge impact on me" and described the CRT as "far ahead of its time".

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/countryside-campaigner-and-force-of-nature-robin-page-dies-9315114/

Excerpt:

"In 2019 Dame Judi Dench, as patron of the CRT, visited the farm to plant a tree for a new community orchard in 2019."

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22robin+page%22+died+80&sca_esv=574223418&ei=TfcuZcOOKouyptQP44u1mAY&ved=0ahUKEwiD6bSo_v2BAxULmYkEHeNFDWMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22robin+page%22+died+80&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFCJyb2JpbiBwYWdlIiBkaWVkIDgwMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSNgQUM0EWIQOcAF4AZABAJgBc6ABzgSqAQM2LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHCAgoQABhHGNYEGLADwgIFEAAYgATCAgYQABgWGB7CAggQABiKBRiGA8ICCBAhGBYYHhgd4gMEGAAgQYgGAZAGBg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1
(more obits)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/129085.Robin_Page
(reader reviews - I'm pretty sure the first six books are by the Colorado writer/illustrator - at any rate, the latter often worked with her husband, Steve Jenkins)

Some of his titles seem to be:

Weather Forecasting : The Country Way

The decline of an English village

Beningfield's Orchards

The Great British Butterfly Safari

Rustic Rebel

The journal of a country parish

The Country Way of Love

A Peasant's Diary

The hunter and the hunted: A countryman's view of blood sports

Fox & the Orchid: Country Sports and the Countryside

The Hunting Gene : Hunting - Its People, Its Wildlife and Its Countryside

A fox's tale: The secret life of the fox

The Revolting Peasant

The country way of cures and remedies

Vocal Yokel

The Twitchers Guide to British Birds

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