Joseph Bamford 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, hay Wufflers, Mangold cutters,
Terry Bamford Terry Bamford Terry Bamford OBE is a social worker and writer on social work topics. He has a in degree in Law from University College, Oxford and a Diploma in Social Administration from the London School of Economics. He worked as a probation officer for eight years before becoming Assistant General Secretary of the British Association of Social Workers. He then worked in Harrow and served for two years as Chair of the Association. He was Director of Social Services in Northern Ireland from 1985 to 1990. For ten years he was Executive Director of Housing and Social Services in