Sir Anthony Bamford, DL

Career: joined JCB 1964, chm and md J C Bamford Group 1975-; dir Tarmac plc 1987-95; memb: President's Ctee CBI 1986-88, Design Cncl 1987-89; pres: Staffs Agric Soc 1987-88, Burton on Trent Cons Assoc 1987-90; High Sheriff of Staffs 1985-86; Hon MEng Birmingham 1987, Hon DUniv Keele 1988, Hon DSc Cranfield 1994, Hon DBA Robert Gordon Univ Aberdeen 1996, Hon DTech Univ of Staffordshire 1998, Hon DTech Loughborough Univ 2002; Young Exporter of the Year 1972, Young Businessman of the Year 1979, Top Exporter of the Year 1995, Entrepreneurial Award Br American Business Inc (BABI) 2003; Hon FCGI 1993, Hon FCSD 1994, fell Inst of Agricultural Engrgs 2003; Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (France) 1989, Commendatore al merito della Repubblica Italiana 1995