| 词条 | Geoffrey Eley |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Geoffrey Eley | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|JP|FLS}} | image = Sir Geoffrey Eley.jpg | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Sir Geoffrey Eley, October 1964 | birth_name = Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|7|18|df=y}} | birth_place = East Bergholt, Suffolk, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|5|17|1904|7|18|df=y}} | death_place = Braintree, Essex, England | resting_place = | nationality = British | education = Eton College | alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge | occupation = Banker, businessman | years_active = | spouse = Penelope Hughes Wake-Walker | children = | mother = | father = | relatives = Maxwell Eley (brother) }} Sir Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|JP|FLS}} (18 July 1904 – 17 May 1990) was a British businessman and author. He served as a director of the Bank of England, and as High Sheriff of both the County of London and the City of London. BiographyEley was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, one of four sons born to Charles Cuthbert Eley, a barrister and noted gardener, and Ethel Maxwell Ryves. His great-grandfather William Eley co-founded the Eley Brothers. He was the younger brother of Maxwell Eley, a gold medalist in rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1][2] He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1925; MA, 1947).[3] He also studied at Harvard University in 1925–26.[4] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1947 Birthday Honours for his services following the war, when he was Director of Overseas Disposals, Ministry of Supply.[5] He was appointed to the Court of Directors for the Bank of England in 1949.[6] He was knighted in the 1964 Birthday Honours.[7] He was chairman of the Brush Group, Ltd., Heinemann Group of Publishers Ltd., Richard Thomas and Baldwins and Thomas Tilling. In 1937, he married Penelope Hughes Wake-Walker, daughter of Admiral Sir Frederic Wake-Walker and Muriel, daughter of Sir Collingwood Hughes, 10th Baronet. They had two sons and two daughters. His youngest daughter, Chloë Sarabella, married Richard Christian Wynne Fremantle, grandson of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe.[8] He also served as High Sheriff of the County of London in 1954–55,[9] and High Sheriff of Greater London in 1966–67. He is buried in the cemetery at East Bergholt in Suffolk. References1. ^{{cite news |title=C. C. Eley – The Golden Age of Amateur Gardening |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page=15 |date=15 June 1960}} 2. ^{{cite news |title=Brothers Give Land to Ministry |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page=4 |date=17 December 1964}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=The International Who's who: 1990-91|date=1990|publisher=Europa Publications Limited|isbn=9780946653584|page=457|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptZwCVvIJxkC|accessdate=12 December 2016|language=en}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Harvard Alumni Directory|date=1955|page=364|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVUjAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=12 December 2016|language=en}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 37977|date=6 June 1947 |page=2583 |supp=y}} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 38772|date=29 November 1949 |page=5670 }} 7. ^{{London Gazette |issue=43343 |date=5 June 1964 |page=4938 |supp=y}} 8. ^{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke’s Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=919 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} 9. ^{{London Gazette |issue=40115 |date=2 March 1954 |page=1315 }} External links
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