Colin Morven Sharman, Baron Sharman

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(born 19 February 1943), is the former British chairman of Aviva Group and former chairman of

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. He was educated at

Bishop Wordsworth's School Bishop Wordsworth's School is a Church of England boys' grammar school in Salisbury, Wiltshire for boys aged 11 to 18. The school has been amongst the top-performing schools in England, and in 2010 was the school with the best results in the Eng ...

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and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1965. He joined Peat Marwick Mitchell the following year, and rose through the years to become chairman of the renamed KPMG in 1997. Sharman was appointed an

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(OBE) in the

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, for services to the British community in the Netherlands. He married his partner Angela Timmons and had two children, Sarah and Richard. Sarah had three children with her husband Peter Berridge named, Emily, Charlie and Oscar. Richard had two children with his wife Holly Curtis named, William and Florence On 2 August 1999 he was created a

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as Baron Sharman, of Redlynch in the

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and entered the

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as a

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peer. He retired from the House of Lords on 30 April 2015. Lord Sharman was a member of the ABN AMRO Supervisory Board from 2003 until 2007. He was chairman of

Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 19 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...

Group from January 2006 to June 2012, was a non-executive director at

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until April 2011, and on the board of

BG Group BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory an ...

and

Group 4 Securicor G4S is a British multinational private security company headquartered in London, England. The company was set up in July 2004 when London-based Securicor amalgamated with Danish firm Group 4 Falck. The company offers a range of services, incl ...

. Other previous board appointments include chairman of Aegis Group plc; deputy chairman of G4S plc; Young & Co's Brewery plc and AEA Technology plc. He attended the 2014 Moroccan British Business Conference, held in London, alongside Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf.

Arms

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Lord Sharman profile on the Liberal Democrats websiteLord Sharman
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Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords
House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 October 1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharman, Colin Sharman, Baron 1943 births Living people British accountants Liberal Democrats (UK) life peers Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School Aviva people KPMG people Life peers created by Elizabeth II Peers retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014