Geoffrey Dodsworth
| Geoffrey Dodsworth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 June 1928 York, Yorkshire |
| Occupation | Banker, politician |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel Neale Elizabeth Beeston |
| Children | 3 |
Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth FCA (born 7 June 1928) is a former merchant banker and British Conservative Party politician.
Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth was born on 7 June 1928. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York.
He began his working life in 1945 as an article clerk and subsequently a Chartered Accountant at Barron & Barron in York. After two years' service in the army, from 4 July 1946 to 26 August 1948, he returned to Barron & Barron, where he worked on a number of major business activities for large estates in Yorkshire and London until 1963. Whilst at Barron & Barron, Geoffrey also became Justice of the Peace for York in 1960 - at just 32, he was one of the youngest ever magistrates for the city.
He set up a group of companies in the export and import trade in 1963 and travelled extensively in Ottawa, New York and Washington, developing these businesses. In 1970, he joined William Brandt’s Sons & Co. Ltd. He became Managing Director of Grindlay Brandt’s Ltd. (a Merchant Bank), in 1974, and also in the same year became Director of Grindlays Bank Ltd. (now ANZ). Dodsworth made presentations on behalf of the UK leasing Industry with the British Export Council in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Iran and India. In 1980, he became President and co-Chief Executive of Oceanic Finance Corporation Ltd., based in Bermuda. He then moved on to become Chairman and Chief Executive of Jorvik Finance Corporation Ltd., in Bermuda, in 1988, and set up Dodsworth and Company Ltd. in 1988, under personal control, specialising in equity and bank funding for asset and project finance. One of his biggest deals was negotiating the sale of a cable and telephone franchise to Cable & Wireless.
He was Director of a quoted Property Company for three years in the 1990s and worked with First International Shipping Corporation in the late 1990s. He then moved on to doing consultancy work for WRDC Limited, a computer software company. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, was Chairman and founder of the UK Equipment Leasing Association and Vice-Chairman of the European Leasing Federation. He is a Freeman of the City of London and acted as Trustee on a number of Family Trusts.
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