Sir Simon Hugh Patrick Boyle (22 March 1941 – 4 September 2020) was a British business executive who was

Lord Lieutenant of Gwent The office of Lord Lieutenant of Gwent was created on 1 April 1974 as the Monarch's representative covering the newly formed administrative county of Gwent. By virtue of S.I 1973/1754, the existing Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire became the firs ...

from 2001 to 2016.

Biography

Boyle was born on 22 March 1941,"Boyle, Sir Simon (High Patrick)"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 January 2018. the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick John Salvin Boyle (1910–1944) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Fleetwood Fuller,

OBE 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 o ...

, JP, DL (1916–1996), the daughter of

Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

Robert Fleetwood Fuller (1875–1955), JP, DL, of

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, Melksham, Wiltshire (of which county he was High Sheriff in 1926).''Burke's Peerage'', vol. 2 (2003), p. 1566.''Burke's Peerage'', vol. 1 (2003), p. 1497. The great-grandson of the seventh Earl of Glasgow, Patrick Boyle had been an aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Canada between 1935 and 1937, but was killed in action during the Second World War; in 1948 his widow married Lieutenant-Colonel

Charles Murray Floyd Charles Murray Floyd, OBE, FLS, FRICS (12 September 1905 – 27 June 1971) was an English businessman, surveyor, land agent and local politician. Biography Charles Murray Floyd was born on 12 September 1905,

, OBE, FLS,

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(1905–1971), the chairman of Avon India Rubber and George Spencer Moulton Ltd (1955–68) and the son of Captain

Sir Henry Robert Peel Floyd, 4th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

. Simon Boyle was educated at Eton College, and then worked for

Stewarts & Lloyds Stewarts & Lloyds was a steel tube manufacturer with its headquarters in Glasgow at 41 Oswald Street. The company was created in 1903 by the amalgamation of two of the largest iron and steel makers in Britain, A. & J. Stewart & Menzies, Coatbridge ...

in Australia and the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1965. He joined Avon Rubber Company in 1966, but left to work for British Steel in 1970, remaining with them (largely at Llanwern, Gwent) until his retirement in 2001. In 1993, he was High Sheriff of Gwent, and he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Gwent in 1997, before becoming the county's

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in 2001 (serving until 2016); he was also appointed

Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

and a Companion of the Order of St John in 2002. He served as Chairman of Gwent Criminal Justice Board from 2003 to 2005 and as President of the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations from 2006 to 2016. In 2015, Boyle was appointed a

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order The Royal Victorian Order (french: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the British monarch, Canadian monarch, Australian monarch, or ...

(KCVO). In 1970, Boyle married Catriona, daughter of William Gordon Gordon of Lude, DFC, TD; they have had four children: Alice Catriona Jane (born 1972), Mary Helen Fenella (born 1974), Susannah Elizabeth (born 1977), and Christian Laura Frances (born 1982), and he had eight grand-children, Rosie, Flora, Katherine, George, Annabel, Hugo, Elizabeth and Susannah. He died on 4 September 2020 at the age of 79.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, Simon 1941 births 2020 deaths British business executives High Sheriffs of Gwent Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Lord-Lieutenants of Gwent People educated at Eton College Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)