1. Sir Ivan Arthur Rice Stedeford GBE, was a British industrialist and philanthropist.
20 Facts About Ivan Stedeford
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Ivan Stedeford was the son of the Reverend Charles Ivan Stedeford, who served as President of the United Methodist Conference in 1928.
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Ivan Stedeford began his education at Shebbear College in North Devon.
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The family frequently moved as Charles Ivan Stedeford's ministry took him to different parts of the country and Ivan Stedeford finished his education at the King Edward VI Aston in Birmingham.
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Ivan Stedeford left school in 1913 to become an engineering apprentice at Wolseley Motors Ltd.
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In 1928, Ivan Stedeford was persuaded to join Tubes Ltd, the precursor of the small Midlands company Tube Investments Ltd, as sales director.
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Ivan Stedeford was invited to sit on the boards of the National Provincial Bank, as Deputy chairman; the Atlas Assurance Company; the Rank Organisation; and the District Bank.
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Ivan Stedeford inaugurated the hospital in 1966, now it is a major hospital serving the Ambattur region near Madras now called as Chennai in southern India, The Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital, was a direct result of this close partnership.
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In 1958 Ivan Stedeford conducted the first hostile takeover of a public company in the United Kingdom, in the Aluminium War, when Tube Investments, allied with Reynolds Metals of the United States and advised by Siegmund George Warburg, won the battle for British Aluminium, headed by Lord Portal.
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Ivan Stedeford was a Governor of the BBC, having been a member of the Beveridge Committee on its structure.
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Ivan Stedeford was a member of the board of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
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Ivan Stedeford was on the council of the Department of Scientific Research and a member of the board of the Commonwealth Development Finance Company.
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Ivan Stedeford was invited in 1960 by the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to become the Chairman of an Advisory Group on the state of British transport, which became known as the Stedeford Committee.
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In spite of questions being asked in Parliament, Sir Ivan Stedeford's report was not published at the time.
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Ivan Stedeford's knighthood was advanced to Knight Grand Cross in 1961 for public service.
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Ivan Stedeford was an engaging conversationalist and writer and a doughty debater.
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Ivan Stedeford expected every employee to make his or her own effort.
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Ivan Stedeford sponsored pensions and free life assurance for all employees, at a time when such benefits were rare.
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Ivan Stedeford married Gwendoline Aston in 1923, and they had three daughters.
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Sir Ivan Stedeford was the architect of the sale of Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Ltd to TI in the forties.