Joseph Sidney Joe Mitty MBE was a British salesman and the man who turned the first Oxfam gift shop into a national retail network of shops selling second hand clothing and other goods.
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14 Facts About Joe Mitty
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Joe Mitty worked for Oxfam for 33 years, earned the nickname of "salesman of the angels".
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Joe Mitty joined the British Territorial Army in 1938, before enlisting in the 7th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment in March 1939.
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On his way to the Far East, Joe Mitty travelled through India, where he was moved by the extreme poverty which he witnessed in the slums of Calcutta.
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Joe Mitty purchased a quarter-acre plot of land at Cumnor for £75, and built a house, which he and his wife would live in for the next 60 years.
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Joe Mitty initially worked for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
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Joe Mitty was hired directly by Oxfam founder, Cecil Jackson-Cole, in 1947.
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Joe Mitty was instructed to meet Jackson-Cole in the lobby of the Grosvenor Hotel, in Victoria with a handkerchief over his face.
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Joe Mitty's growing success at Oxfam allowed him to recruit a number of celebrities including Harry Secombe who helped to draw attention to Oxfam's work.
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Blair declared to the audience that if Joe Mitty had worked in the private sector he would have been a multi-millionaire.
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