David Lunn-Rockliffe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Lunn-Rockliffe

British businessman, rowing supporter, museum founder

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1924

Date of Death: 23-Aug-2011

Profession: businessperson, rowing official

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About David Lunn-Rockliffe

  • David Lunn-Rockliffe (28 December 1924 – 23 August 2011) was a British businessman, rowing supporter, and co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, England.Lunn-Rockliffe was the youngest son of an English father, a doctor, and Swiss mother.
  • He was brought up near Winchester in Hampshire, southern England.
  • He was educated at Stowe School and Jesus College, Cambridge, reading land economy, with a break between to serve with the Worcestershire Regiment in Burma during World War II. He started working as a dairy farmer in Hampshire, before becoming a development officer at the Institute of Corn and Agricultural Merchants.
  • He later worked in the paint industry. Lunn-Rockliffe was Executive Secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association (now known as British Rowing) in the United Kingdom from 1976 until 1987, overseeing the move towards a more professional organization.
  • He was then central to the foundation of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1998.
  • He took charge of negotiating a site close to the River Thames with Henley Town Council, engaging the architect David Chipperfield to design the award-winning museum building, and obtaining planning permission together with major sponsorship from the locally based businessmen Martyn Arbib and Urs Schwarzenbach. David Lunn-Rockcliffe married Elizabeth Capron in 1950 and they lived in Wimbledon followed by Surbiton, both in southwest London.
  • They had five daughters and she died in 2001 after they moved to Exeter in Devon.

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