Charles Brett - Career

Career

Between 1949 and 1950 he worked in France as a journalist with the Continental Daily Mail, where he is said to have mixed in anarchist and Trotskyite circles.

In 1956, the Earl of Antrim invited Charlie Brett to join the Northern Ireland Committee of the National Trust, on finding there were no books written to prepare himself for this to this Sir Charles resolved to write the necessary volumes. In 1957 he became the first chairman of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, founded alongside, amongst others Lady Dunleath. Brett served as chairman for ten years and then as President from 1979 until his death.

With the National Trust he put his legal skill to use in order to establish a public footpath along the cliffs of the North Coast of Ulster.

He also sat on the board of the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin.

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