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
Maurice Bamford Maurice Bamford Maurice Bamford is an English former professional rugby league footballer, and coach. He also went on to write several books on rugby league. Bamford was born Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Sacred Heart Roman Catholic School in Leeds. He was introduced to rugby league in 1945 when he played for his school immediately after the end of the Second World War. He signed professional forms for Hull F.C. in 1953, but never played in the first team. He was transferred to Dewsbury in 1957 and returned to play amateur rugby league in 1964, having played