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 Salmon, Baron Salmon Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon Cyril Barnet Salmon, Baron Salmon PC (28 December 1903 – 7 November 1991) was a British judge. Cyril Barnet Salmon was the son of Montagu Salmon (1878-?), tobacco merchant, and Marian Nina Trevor, née Abrahams, his wife. He was the grandson of Barnett Salmon (1829-1897) co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacco merchants. He was educated at Mill Hill School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read Law. He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1925, and was the pupil of Walter Monckton, before joining the chambers of Lord Wright at 5 Crown