Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth was a merchant banker and British Conservative Party politician.
16 Facts About Geoffrey Dodsworth
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Geoffrey Dodsworth set up a group of companies in the export and import trade in 1963 and travelled extensively in Ottawa, New York and Washington, developing these businesses.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth made presentations on behalf of the UK leasing Industry with the British Export Council in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Iran and India.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth then moved on to become chairman and Chief Executive of Jorvik Finance Corporation Ltd.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth was Director of a quoted Property Company for three years in the 1990s and worked with First International Shipping Corporation in the late 1990s.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, was chairman and founder of the UK Equipment Leasing Association and vice-chairman of the European Leasing Federation.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth was a Freeman of the City of London and acted as Trustee on a number of Family Trusts.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth became Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group on York City Council in 1964 and was a member of the council for six years, serving on major committees specialising in financial matters.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth was Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire from February 1974, and was re-adopted for the 1979 election.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth resigned as an MP in October 1979, on medical advice under severe pressure from a considerable proportion of his constituents.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth had held office in the backbench Shipping and Shipbuilding Committees and was Joint Secretary of the Finance Committee.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth served on the Select Committees on The Wealth Tax and Statutory Instruments.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth returned north and was Chairman of the Vale of York constituency association in 1998 and stood for the North Yorkshire County Council in 1997.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth married his first wife, Isabel Neale, in 1949, who died in September 1967 after a long illness.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth married his second wife, Elizabeth Beeston, in 1971.
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Geoffrey Dodsworth died on 29 March 2018 at the age of 89.