1. Sir Timothy James Alan Colman was a British businessman and a Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
12 Facts About Timothy Colman
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Timothy Colman was educated at Heatherdown Preparatory School in Berkshire and at the age of 13 enrolled at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and joined the Royal Navy.
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Timothy Colman later served as a second lieutenant on HMS Frobisher and Indefatigable leaving as a lieutenant in 1953, before commencing a business career.
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Timothy Colman was chairman of the Eastern Counties Newspaper Group from 1969 to 1996.
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Timothy Colman was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1996.
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Timothy Colman was a yachtsman, and claimed the record for the world's fastest yacht at 26.3 knots with Crossbow, a proa outrigger, at the inception of the World Sailing Speed Record Council in 1972.
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Timothy Colman increased the record to 31.2 knots three years later, and then in 1980 his catamaran Crossbow II extended the record to 36 knots.
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Timothy Colman had important roles in establishing the University of East Anglia, the creation of Whitlingham Broad and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
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Timothy Colman was married to Lady Mary Colman, niece of the Queen Mother, and lived in Bixley Manor, near Norwich.
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Lady Mary died on 2 January 2021 and Sir Timothy Colman died at Bixley Manor on 9 September 2021, at the age of 91.
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Timothy Colman's death came one day after fellow Knight Companion of the Garter Sir Antony Acland.
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Timothy Colman's children include Sarah Troughton, who was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2012.