14 Facts About Naim Dangoor

Sir Naim Eliahou Dangoor, CBE was a British-Iraqi entrepreneur and philanthropist known for his business ventures.

Alongside Eastern Industries, Naim Dangoor ran factories producing matches and furniture.

Naim Dangoor continued travelling back and forth for business until 1963, when he decided that the worsening political situation made it too risky for him to return.

Naim Dangoor was eventually permitted to settle in the UK where he set about rebuilding his life, setting up a property business that his four sons went on to join.

In November 1947, Naim Dangoor married his cousin, Renee Naim Dangoor.

Naim Dangoor's family have been closely involved with the running of the school and have seen it go from being issued with an Ofsted 'Notice to Improve' in 2009, to being rated as 'Outstanding' in 2013.

Naim Dangoor donated a significant amount to Cancer Research UK to support their website, in memory of his late wife Renee, who died from breast cancer in 2008.

At Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Naim Dangoor set up the Naim Dangoor Centre for Personalised Medicine in the Galilee, which partners with hospitals to analyse the genetic makeup of individual patients, enabling doctors to implement the most effective treatments.

Naim Dangoor was the largest private individual donor to the Francis Crick Institute in London, Europe's largest biomedical research centre.

Naim Dangoor Walk, a pathway that runs beside the Francis Crick Institute and links Midland Road with Ossulton Street, is named after him.

Naim Dangoor has sponsored the setting up of a Centre for Universal Monotheism at Bar-Ilan University from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2006.

Naim Dangoor made contributions to the University of Nanjing in China, and had a particular interest in China because his late wife Renee was born and grew up in Shanghai.

Naim Dangoor was appointed OBE in 2006, and CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours List, and was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's 2015 Birthday Honours list.

In 2012, Naim Dangoor was made a fellow of Birkbeck College, part of the University of London.