Sir Simon Hugh Patrick Boyle (22 March 1941 – 4 September 2020) was a British business executive who was

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from 2001 to 2016.

Biography

Boyle was born on 22 March 1941,"Boyle, Sir Simon (High Patrick)"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 January 2018. the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick John Salvin Boyle (1910–1944) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Fleetwood Fuller,

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, JP, DL (1916–1996), the daughter of

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Robert Fleetwood Fuller (1875–1955), JP, DL, of

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(of which county he was High Sheriff in 1926).''Burke's Peerage'', vol. 2 (2003), p. 1566.''Burke's Peerage'', vol. 1 (2003), p. 1497. The great-grandson of the seventh Earl of Glasgow, Patrick Boyle had been an aide-de-camp to the

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between 1935 and 1937, but was

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during the

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; in 1948 his widow married Lieutenant-Colonel

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, OBE, FLS,

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(1905–1971), the chairman of Avon India Rubber and

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Ltd (1955–68) and the son of Captain Sir Henry Robert Peel Floyd, 4th Baronet. Simon Boyle was educated at

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, and then worked for

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in Australia and the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1965. He joined Avon Rubber Company in 1966, but left to work for British Steel in 1970, remaining with them (largely at

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, Gwent) until his retirement in 2001. In 1993, he was

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, and he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for

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in 1997, before becoming the county's

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in 2001 (serving until 2016); he was also appointed Justice of the Peace and a Companion of the

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in 2002. He served as Chairman of Gwent Criminal Justice Board from 2003 to 2005 and as President of the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations from 2006 to 2016. In 2015, Boyle was appointed a

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(KCVO). In 1970, Boyle married Catriona, daughter of William Gordon Gordon of Lude, DFC, TD; they have had four children: Alice Catriona Jane (born 1972), Mary Helen Fenella (born 1974), Susannah Elizabeth (born 1977), and Christian Laura Frances (born 1982), and he had eight grand-children, Rosie, Flora, Katherine, George, Annabel, Hugo, Elizabeth and Susannah. He died on 4 September 2020 at the age of 79.

References

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