William Hamilton Summers LVO (4 October 1930 – 19 June 2002), was the British

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for almost 30 years, a post he held as a director of the London jewellery firm Garrard & Co. Summers was born in

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, and attended King's School, Bruton. He did National Service with the

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then joined Garrard as an apprentice where he succeeded Cecil Mann as the Crown Jeweller in 1962, a post he held until his retirement in 1991. He was succeeded by

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