William Cockcroft DL is the former Chief Scout Commissioner of

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and was director of the

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. Cockcroft was educated at

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, leaving in 1965, and graduated from the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1970, majoring in Quantity Surveying. He is Senior Partner of Sawyer Fisher Chartered Quantity Surveyors, which he joined in June 1965. In 2008, Cockcroft was awarded the ''

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'', the only distinction of the

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, awarded by the

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for exceptional services to world

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, at the 38th World Scout Conference.World Organisation of the Scout Movement website
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Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom Living people Deputy lieutenants of Kent Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at The Judd School {{Scout-bio-stub