Anthony Bamford to the Conservative Party and donated £1m before the 2010 General Election. Altogether, Bamford has donated more than £4m personally and through JCB companies. Prime Minister David Cameron recommended Bamford for a peerage in 2010. However, Bamford withdrew his name from consideration days before the members were announced. On 3 October 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Bamford, of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and of Wootton in the County of Staffordshire. In June 2016, Bamford wrote a letter in support of voting to leave the European Union to his employees. JCB has donated
Mary Ellen Bamford Mary Ellen Bamford Mary Ellen Bamford (December 10, 1857 – May 21, 1946) was an American author from Healdsburg, California. Mary Ellen Bamford was born in Healdsburg, California. She was the daughter of Doctor William Bamford and Cornelia Elizabeth Rand; her parents were pioneer settlers. In the 1850s, her future father, born in Ireland, had traveled across the plains whilst Cornelia Rand had arrived by California from her native New Hampshire by sea via Cape Horn. Her parents married on February 16, 1857 in Santa Rosa, California. Mary Bamford had an older half brother, Edmund L. Bamford, from Dr. Bamford's