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Bevil Mabey
Bevil Guy Mabey (16 April 1916 – 27 April 2010) was an English businessman who expanded the Mabey Group of engineering businesses, developing a modular steel bridge that could be quickly erected, and which became the successor to the wartime Bailey bridge. Early life Mabey was born in Richmond, North Yorkshire, one of three children (two boys – Bevil was the youngest – and one girl) born to Guy Mabey, the founder in 1923 of a builders merchant, Mabey & Johnson. Bevil Mabey was educated at Tonbridge School and, from 1935, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read anthropology, archaeology and history. A keen rower, Mabey rowed in eights and fours, and enjoyed sculling, winning the Junior-Senior Sculls Cup at Marlow Regatta in 1937. His brother Dennis joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve but was killed in action in November 1939. Bevil Mabey first joined the Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Signals then the Royal Army Service Corps, rising to the rank of Major. During Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, North Yorkshire
Richmond is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, and the administrative centre of the district of Richmondshire. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is from the county town of Northallerton and situated on the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and is one of the park's tourist centres. The population of Richmond at the 2011 census was 8,413. The Rough Guide describes the town as 'an absolute gem'. Betty James wrote that "without any doubt Richmond is the most romantic place in the whole of the North East f England. Richmond was the winner of the Academy of Urbanism's "Great Town" award in 2009. History The town of Richemont, in Normandy (now in the Seine-Maritime département of the Upper Normandy region), was the origin of the place name Richmond. It is the most duplicated UK place name, with 56 occurrences worldwide. Richmond in North Yorkshire was the Honour of Richmond of the Earls of Richmond (or ''comtes de Richemon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
