Duckworth Worcestershire Trust
Cecil Duckworth CBE (1937 – 15 November 2020) was an English businessman and the founder of Worcester Bosch and executive chairman of Rugby Union team Worcester Warriors. He also founded the Worcestershire Duckworth Trust, a Worcestershire charity that helps to relieve poverty and promote environmental conservation. Biography Personal life and career Cecil Duckworth was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1937. He died on 15 November 2020. He moved to Worcester in 1958 having secured a five-year apprenticeship with Redman Engineering. He qualified as a mechanical engineer in 1961. Duckworth started Worcester Engineering Co Ltd in 1962. The company grew slowly at first until Duckworth introduced the first combination boilers in 1970. The popularity of his new type of heating system saw his business expand rapidly. He sold the company to the Bosch Group in 1992, personally earning around £30 million, though he remained with the company. After a year as president of the Bo ...
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Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V and comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were originally made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire (later Commonwealth) and the Viceroy of India. Nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most Commonwealth countries ceased recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire when they ...
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