Bloomsbury Group Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1919. Much about Bloomsbury appears to be controversial, including its membership and name: indeed, some would maintain that "the three words 'the Bloomsbury group' have been so much used as to have become almost unusable". Close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes’s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly "writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not 'Bloomsbury': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole". Another is Vita Sackville-West,
William Press Group of Ray Daniels. The name of the company changed from "William Press & Son" to "William Press Group" in 1981. It merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son in 1982 to form AMEC. William Press Group William Press Group was a leading British engineering business which merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son to become a FTSE 100 company, AMEC. The company was founded by William Allpress in 1913 in London. In 1954 it started to focus on developments in cathodic protection for pipelines forming "Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd" ('MAPEL'). In the 1970s it converted about 50% of the UK's houses