1. Sir John Harvey-Jones MBE was an English businessman.
12 Facts About John Harvey-Jones
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John Harvey-Jones was the chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1982 to 1987.
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John Harvey-Jones was best known by the public for his BBC television show, Troubleshooter, in which he advised struggling businesses.
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John Henry Harvey-Jones was born in Hackney, London, but spent most of his early childhood in Dhar, India, where his father, Mervyn Stockton Harvey-Jones, a former Captain in the Indian Army and bank employee, was guardian and tutor to a teenage maharajah.
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John Harvey-Jones was shipped back to Britain at age six to attend a prep school at Deal, Kent.
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John Harvey-Jones entered Dartmouth Royal Naval College at age 13.
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John Harvey-Jones went on to join the submarine service in 1942, and received his first command at age 24.
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John Harvey-Jones married Mary Evelyn Bignell Atcheson in 1947, and they had one daughter.
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John Harvey-Jones commanded the Russian intelligence section under the guise of the "British Baltic Fishery Protection Service", which used two ex-German E-boats for gathering clandestine intelligence on the Soviet Baltic Fleet.
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Between 1986 and 1991, John Harvey-Jones served as the second Chancellor of the University of Bradford.
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John Harvey-Jones agreed to sit for the sculptors Jon Edgar and Steven Whyte.
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John Harvey-Jones was chairman of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and member of the Advisory Council of the Prince's Trust.