12 Facts About Dudley Docker

Frank Dudley Docker was an English businessman and financier.

Dudley Docker played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1881 and 1882.

Ralph Dudley Docker was a solicitor in practice at Birmingham and Smethwick who took on a large number of public appointments, including Coroner for North Worcestershire; at the time of his retirement, two days before his death in 1887, Ralph Dudley Docker was the oldest and longest-serving Coroner in England.

Dudley Docker attended King Edward's School, Birmingham but appears to have resisted formal schooling and left early.

Dudley Docker was equally discontented when he went into his father's office to study law.

Dudley Docker played a match in the 1882 season against Sussex where he scored 25 in his first innings but Derbyshire lost by a few runs.

The varnish business grew into more general paint supply, and in 1894 the company opened a London office reflecting their success in winning orders from railway and rolling stock companies and Dudley Docker developed his interest and success in making deals.

Dudley Docker was the chairman of Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon during the First World War, constructing the first tanks.

Dudley Docker was a director of the Midland Bank from 1912 until his death.

Dudley Docker was one of the founders of the Federation of British Industry.

Dudley Docker married Lucy Constance, daughter of distinguished Birmingham legal figure John Benbow Hebbert, in 1895.

Dudley Docker had acquired a flat in Berkeley Square Mayfair in 1923.