Sir Roger William Cork (31 March 1947 – 21 October 2002) was a British accountant and insolvency expert, and the 669th

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(from 1996 to 1997). Roger Cork was born on 31 March 1947 in Hatch End, Middlesex, the son of Sir

Kenneth Cork Sir Kenneth Russell Cork (21 August 191313 October 1991) was a British accountant and insolvency expert, and the Lord Mayor of London from 1978–1979. He is best known for chairing a major review of UK insolvency law (whose report issued in 198 ...

. He went to St Martin’s School, Northwood, and then to

Uppingham Uppingham is a market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Rutland, England, off the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough, south of Oakham. It had a population of 4,745 according to the 2011 census, estimated at 4,853 in 2019. ...

. Cork followed his father as alderman for Tower ward in 1983, and was Sheriff of the City in 1992-93. He was president of the Institute of Credit Management. In 1999-2000, he was Master of the

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, one of the

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's 110

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. He was knighted in the

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. Sir Roger Cork died on 21 October 2002, aged 55.

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