Draft:Derek Edwards
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Ronald Derek Keep Edwards (born 22 Novemember 1934) served as a Sheriff of the City of London from 1989 until 1990.[1]
Educated at Winchester College, Edwards was commissioned in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards and later the Inns of Court Regiment, Territorial Army. His involvement in the City of London started in 1959 when he became a Member of the London Stock Exchange having joined his family company R. Edwards Chandler & Co (founded 1817). He was a senior partner at R Edwards, Chandler & Co from 1965-69; Brewin Dolphin 1969-1980; Director of international corporate finance at Cobbold Roach from 1980-1987; a consultant for Rathbones from 1991-1998, and a consultant for J Rothschild & St. James's Place plc from 1998 until 2015.
Public Service
[edit]Chairman of Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1994-97; Vice-Chairman Greater London Fund for the Blind 1986-96; Vice-Chairman Sheriffs’ and Recorders Fund (for prisoners) 1991-2006 ; Governor of Amesbury School 1970-88 and Christ’s Hospital School; Church Warden St Mary Aldermary, City 1959-80; Court of Common Council 1978-97, Freeman of the City of London 1997, Worshipful Company of Loriners, Order of St John 1989.
Bibliography
[edit]- Edwards, Derek (2008). Pudding on Fridays. Memoir Club. ISBN 978-1841041612.
