Anthony Bamford Anthony Bamford Anthony Paul Bamford, Baron Bamford, DL (born 23 October 1945) is a British businessman, chairman of JCB. He succeeded his father, Joseph Cyril Bamford, as chairman and managing director of JCB in 1975, at the age of 30. He was knighted in 1990 at the age of 45. His wealth was estimated at £3.1 billion as of April 2012. Bamford was educated at Ampleforth College, a boarding independent school near the village and civil parish of Ampleforth in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England (about north of York, and on the edge of the North York Moors
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