Joseph Bamford the National Portrait Gallery. Joseph Bamford Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE (21 June 1916 – 1 March 2001) was a British businessman, who was the founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant. Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. His great grandfather Henry Bamford was born in Yoxall, and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women. Bamfords International Farm Machinery became one of the country's major agricultural equipment suppliers, famous for its balers, rakes, hay turners,
Ryan Bamford and strength and conditioning, as well as all intercollegiate scheduling, event management and postseason championships for the 35-sport department. Bamford has served on a number of NCAA and Ivy League committees, including four years on the NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee, which he chaired from 2009 to 2010. As part of the administration at Yale, Bamford was responsible for successful new parking regulations for annual Harvard-Yale football rivalry game, as well as dealing with student pranks associated with the rivalry. As senior associate director of athletics at Georgia Tech from 2011-2015, Bamford had direct oversight of all internal operations