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James Graham Somerville (12 July 1915 – 21 May 2014) was a conservationist, pacifist, economist, and environmentalist〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jim Somerville: Local man fought to protect the environment for future generations )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jim Somerville AM - gentle and persistent campaigner for the environment )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pittwater Online News )〕 ==Early years== Jim Somerville was born in Murwillumbah, NSW, the middle child of Reverend James Herbert Somerville and Margaret Somerville (nee Pollock). He was educated at various schools around NSW as his father moved with the Methodist Church. In 1933 he did the Leaving Certificate at Fort Street Boys High describing himself as 'an indifferent scholar'. He was unable to find work in the Depression and studied at the Metropolitan Business College graduating as Dux in 1934. He studied at night for some years and qualified as an Accountant and Company Secretary. In the late 1930s Somerville joined the Coast and Mountain Bush Walking Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coast and Mountain Walkers (CMW) )〕 Somerville later described it as a great and welcome revelation to find that other people shared his great love of the Australian bush. At the same time Somerville also joined Peace Pledge Union and War Resisters' International as he was increasingly leaning towards strong pacifist views. When conscription was introduced in 1939 he was refused registration as a conscientious objector. At the same time increasing pressure to sign up was being applied by his father's parishioners. So in 1942, aged 27, he left Sydney and went to North Queensland hoping to avoid embarrassment for his family should he be arrested and possibly imprisoned. Due to what he called 'bureaucratic ineptitude' Somerville escaped arrest and returned to Sydney. where he finally won an appeal in the District Court to be registered as a conscientious objector in 1943. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Graham Somerville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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