Businessman and management consultant. He has held posts at many companies, and has been chairman of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
This photo comes from the Kew Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2005 (pdf).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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David Norman
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Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka
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Romantic poet. Born Cumberland, with the perfect name for a poet (see Isambard Brunel for more examples of nominative determinism). Died Grasmere, the Lake District. Passing through London in 18...
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