JCB chairman Lord Bamford to take House of Lords seat on November 7 2013

JCB chairman Lord Bamford will officially take his seat in the House of Lords on November 7th, the company has announced. Sir Anthony Bamford was made a Life Peer in August 2013 and will now be known as Lord Bamford after taking the formal title of Baron Bamford of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and of Wootton in the County of Staffordshire.
October 9, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
Sir Anthony Bamford
255 JCB chairman Lord Bamford will officially take his seat in the House of Lords on November 7th, the company has announced.

Sir Anthony Bamford was made a Life Peer in August 2013 and will now be known as Lord Bamford after taking the formal title of Baron Bamford of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and of Wootton in the County of Staffordshire.

Lord Bamford, who next year marks 50 years’ service with JCB, said, “Manufacturing and engineering are the areas I am focused on in my working life and I look forward to making a contribution in these important sectors when I take up my seat in the House of Lords.”

The House of Lords is the second chamber of the UK Parliament. It is independent from, and complements the work of, the elected House of Commons.

After a two year engineering apprenticeship at Massey Ferguson in France, Lord Bamford started work at JCB’s World HQ in Rocester, Staffordshire, in 1964. He became chairman and managing director of JCB at the end of 1975, succeeding his father, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE, who founded the company on the day his son was born on October 23rd, 1945.

Under Lord Bamford’s leadership, JCB has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most successful construction equipment manufacturers. JCB has won more than 50 premier awards for exports, marketing, design, technology and for its care for the environment, among them 27 Queen’s Awards for Technological and Export achievement.

Daylesford is the hamlet in Gloucester where Lord and Lady Bamford live and farm and Wootton is the area close to JCB’s World HQ in Staffordshire where Lord Bamford grew up and where JCB still has a farm.

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