Joseph Bamford He continued to design both boats and diesel engines. Bamford was awarded the honorary degree of a Doctor of Technology from both Loughborough University in 1989 and Keele University in 2000. Bamford died in a London clinic on 1 March 2001. At his death, JCB was the largest privately owned engineering company in Britain, employing 4,500 people and manufacturing 30,000 machines a year in 12 factories on three continents. It had revenues of £850m in 1999, earned from 140 countries. His portraits by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies and Leslie Smithers (whilst he was still the head of his JCB empire) are in
Cyril Sielecki Cyril Sielecki Cyril Sielecki (29 April 1835 28 April 1918), first name also spelled "Cyryl", was a Polish priest of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Przemyśl, and an educational and social activist. He was the founder of the religious congregations of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, as well as the Sisters of Saint Joseph. He was recognized as a servant of God. He was born in Podbuż, in east Galicia, which was part of the Austrian Empire. He came from the Polish aristocratic Sielecki family. His father, Michał, was a teacher, and his mother, Joanna, took care of the