Raymond Piper
Raymond Piper HRUA HRHA MUniv (4 April 1923 – 13 July 2007) was British a botanist and an artist. Early life Raymond Piper was born in London on 4 April 1923 the son of Frank Piper. At the age of six his family moved to Belfast. Piper attended Skegoniel Primary before receiving a general education at Belfast Royal Academy.(according to the Dictionary of Ulster Biography he was educated at Mercantile College/later known after moving to Jordanstown as Belfast High School).in Piper attended nightclasses at Belfast School of Art for one year, where he was taught by Cornish artist Newton Penprase. For a time he was a teacher at the Royal School Dungannon. In 1950 Piper won a CEMA travel award which took him to Paris for a year. Piper worked at Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff between 1940 and 1946 where he carried sketch books in his pockets to fill in time between jobs. He sketched his fellow workers and pictures of Cave Hill, but he had no interest in capturing ships on paper. Piper joined the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club in 1946 where he was twice president in 1971–1972 and 1983–1984. He became an Honorary Member in 1990. He