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and chief financial officer at

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before becoming chairman of BNFL in 1999. He led the company through a partial

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and a series of crises at

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before his retirement in June 2004. He was knighted in the

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References

Obituary
''The Guardian''. Retrieved 28 January 2023. 20th-century British businesspeople 1940 births 2005 deaths British chief financial officers Knights Bachelor {{UK-business-bio-1940s-stub