Air Marshal Sir John Barry Duxbury, (23 January 1934 – 25 January 1997) was a senior commander in the

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who served as

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from 1983 to 1985.

RAF career

Duxbury joined the Royal Air force in 1953.Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Barry Duxbury
/ref> He became Officer Commanding No. 201 Squadron in 1971 and Station Commander at

RAF St Mawgan Royal Air Force St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall, England. In 2008 the runway part of the site was handed over to Newquay Airport. The remainder of the station continues to ...

in 1976. He was appointed Secretary to the Chief of Staffs' Committee in 1978, joined the Senior Directing Staff (Air) at the

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in 1981 and became

in 1982. He served as Air Officer Commanding No. 18 Group from 1986 and retired in 1990.

Retirement

In retirement he became a Chief Executive of the Society of British Aerospace Companies.SBAC
Flight International, 2 October 1996 He also had an appointment as a director of one of

Gerald Carroll Gerald John Howard Carroll (born 1951) is a British businessman. He was the head of his family business the Carroll Group, once one of the largest private companies in the United Kingdom, until it collapsed in the early 1990s, leading to his ban ...

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companies."SFO looks at 500m fall of Carroll empire", Dominic O'Connell, ''

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'', 1 October 2000, p. 1.

References

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