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plc. which he joined in 2015. In 1981, Macnamara joined merchant bank

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where he became deputy chairman and responsible for obtaining the funding for the construction of the

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. He was chairman of Izodia, Essenden, and

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. He was the master of the

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1955 births 2016 deaths Bankers from London English people of Irish descent Alumni of the University of Oxford 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-1950s-stub