Lawrence D. Hills

Lawrence D. Hills (1911-1991) was a British horticulturalist, journalist, and writer, founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), now Garden Organic. A strong advocate of organic farming, his autobiography is Fighting Like the Flowers (1989). He suffered from coeliac disease, which left him in a wheelchair, until introduced to a wheat-free diet by the woman who became his wife, Cherry Hilda Hills, a noted nutritionist.

Lawrence Hills died in 1990 but was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Coventry University the same year.

Six of his gardening books were reissued by Faber Finds in 2008.