1. Charles Dunstone was educated at Uppingham School, an independent school for boys, in the market town of Uppingham in Rutland, in Central England.
12 Facts About Charles Dunstone
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In 1983, having accepted an offer to study business at the University of Liverpool, Charles Dunstone decided to defer his studies for a year and accept a sales job at Torch Computers in Cambridge.
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Charles Dunstone realised that mobile phones would eventually become ubiquitous and left NEC in 1989 to start his own business serving this larger market.
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Charles Dunstone employed the controversial ex-convict Ernest Saunders as a business consultant for Carphone Warehouse prior to its flotation.
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Charles Dunstone is a major backer of discount online estate agency Strike.
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In 2005 Charles Dunstone was awarded The Daily Telegraph's Business Person of the Year.
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Charles Dunstone was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List 'for services to the mobile communications industry and to charity'.
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Charles Dunstone established a charitable trust, which is the main sponsor of the Fulwood Academy school in Preston, Lancashire.
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Charles Dunstone was reappointed in 2017 but resigned in February 2021 before the end of his second term.
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Charles Dunstone has donated to both the Labour and Conservative parties.
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Charles Dunstone is considered a member of the Chipping Norton set.
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Charles Dunstone is married to Celia Gordon Shute, a public relations consultant.