Awards & Charity Positions
Magnusson was awarded an honorary knighthood (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1989, and was elected President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for a five-year period, at their 94th AGM in October 1995, succeeding Max Nicholson. He also became the founder Chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage upon its inception in 1992.
He was Lord Rector of Edinburgh University from 1975 to 1978, and later, in 2002, became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.
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