Nicholas Saunders (activist)

Nicholas Saunders, born Nicholas Carr-Saunders, was a British social inventor, activist, greengrocer, property developer and entrepreneur in the English 'alternative' movement from the 1970s until his death in a car crash near Kroonstad, South Africa. In 1976, he founded the Whole Food Warehouse, Monmouth Coffee Company in 1978 Neal's Yard Dairy in 1979, and the 'Apothecary' dispensing alternative and natural remedies, now known as Neal's Yard Remedies.

Early life and education

Saunders was born in 1938. His father was Alexander Carr-Saunders, a biologist and social scientist who at the time directed the London School of Economics. His family was wealthy and lived in Water Eaton, Oxfordshire in a 16th-century mansion. He attended Ampleforth College, nicknamed the Catholic Eton, and studied engineering at Imperial College for four years. ==Career==

Career

In 1969, Saunders moved to 65 Edith Grove, London. In 1975, after travelling around the country in his live-in van, Saunders published the larger Alternative England and Wales guide, similar to Alternative London. on the frontage of the shop and, inside the yard, a coin-operated animated wooden sculpture. Positive personal experience with MDMA (ecstasy) in the 1990´s led Saunders to investigate and write about this drug. ==Personal life and death==

Personal life and death

In 1981, his son, Kristoffer was born. During the 1980s he lived alone and suffered from depression. In the 1990s "he fell in love with Anja Dashwood, with whom he collaborated and lived, in the flat above Neal’s Yard, for the rest of his life". At the time of his death, he was researching the use of psychoactive drugs by peoples in various parts of the world as part of traditional social rituals . ==Publications==

Publications

• Alternative London. 1970. 50,000 copies printed. • Alternative England and Wales. 1975. • E for Ecstasy. 1993. • Ecstasy and the Dance Culture. Revised and updated version of E for Ecstasy, 1995. • Ecstasy Reconsidered. Revised and updated version of Ecstasy and the Dance Culture, 1997. ==Notes and references==

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