George Gordon Edington,

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(born 7 September 1945), known as Gordon Edington, is a London-born businessman, and writer. He was Vice President and President of the

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, Group Property Director of BAA Airports Ltd and Non Executive Director of

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. He was awarded the

in 2006 for services to children as chair of the NCH. Edington is the son of George Adam Edington and Phyllis Mary (née Allan). When he was 13 months old the family went to live in Kenya, where his father was an engineer working on the Sasumua Dam. In Kenya he went to a nursery school in the

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and then to St. Mary's boarding school in Nairobi. When the family returned to England, Edington attended St Lawrence College,Ramsgate in Kent, from 1957 to 1964 Soon after leaving college Edington started as an office boy at

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, where he worked for four years. After a number of years of evening courses he qualified as a

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, becoming a Fellow of the

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in 1970. In 1981 Edington joined the board of Lynton Holdings, previously he had been a director at Sterling Land. He was a director at BAA from 1991 to 1999. He then joined the board of Lend Lease Group as non executive director where he remained for 13 years. Edington was president of the British Property Federation from 1998 to 1999. In 2001 he was appointed chair of NCH.

Books and publications

* ''Property Management: A Customer Focused Approach'' (1997) * ''The Clowes Family of Chester Sporting Artists'' (Grosvenor Museum Chester, 1985)

References

1945 births Living people Businesspeople from London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge People educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate {{England-business-bio-stub