Automobile executive who filled a succession of increasingly high level appointments with Ford of Britain, culminating with the chairmanship which he held between 1968 and 1972.He joined Ford in 1937 and worked in the Procurement Department until the outbreak of WWII,when he enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps.He was appointed Managing Director of Ford's in 1967 and a year later was elected Chairman.He married in 1941 and his wife was later laid to rest with him.He owned Abbotts Hall Farm, west of the village of Great Wigborough, and in 1970,considerably restored Abbotts Hall, a Grade II listed building from pre-Conquest times. It, and the estate, is now the home of the Essex Wildlife Trust.He died at the age of 85.
Automobile executive who filled a succession of increasingly high level appointments with Ford of Britain, culminating with the chairmanship which he held between 1968 and 1972.He joined Ford in 1937 and worked in the Procurement Department until the outbreak of WWII,when he enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps.He was appointed Managing Director of Ford's in 1967 and a year later was elected Chairman.He married in 1941 and his wife was later laid to rest with him.He owned Abbotts Hall Farm, west of the village of Great Wigborough, and in 1970,considerably restored Abbotts Hall, a Grade II listed building from pre-Conquest times. It, and the estate, is now the home of the Essex Wildlife Trust.He died at the age of 85.
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