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
Cyril Uwins Cyril Uwins Cyril Frank Uwins OBE, AFC, FRAeS (1896–1972) was a British test pilot who worked for Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he made the first flight of 58 different types of aircraft. On 16 September 1932 he broke the world aeroplane height record by climbing to (nearly 8½ miles). He eventually became the Chairman of Bristol Aircraft. He was also Chairman of the Society of British Aircraft Manufacturer between 1956 and 1958, and he was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society silver medal for aeronautics. Cyril Uwins was born at 2 Carmichael Road, South Norwood, Croydon, on 2 August 1896, the