Nicholas Merry is a British businessman who active in the United States who ran a now defunct

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-based dental biotechnology company called MicroDenteX as well as investing in gemstones in Guinea. Until 2 October 2008, Merry was chairman of

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, the club he has supported all his life. He played youth football for the club in the 1970s before a knee injury ended his career prematurely. He also played football for

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at schoolboy level. Merry was part of Woodstock Partners Limited (or WPL), a consortium headed up by

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that bought the club for £1 from former chairman Firoz Kassam.

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Flown from the Nest {{DEFAULTSORT:Merry, Nick Living people English football chairmen and investors Year of birth missing (living people) English men's footballers Men's association football players not categorized by position Oxford United F.C. players England men's schools international footballers People from Woodstock, Oxfordshire Oxford United F.C. chairmen and investors Footballers from Oxfordshire