Person    | Male  Born 1940 

Roger Jefcoate

Categories: Benefactor

From The Woodland Trust: "Roger Jefcoate has spent 30 years secretly planting his beloved black poplars.... As a scientist and engineer, Roger developed Possum, the first remote control to help disabled people with their mobility....".

The birth date is approximate. From Buckingham Today: "In 1998, he was made a CBE for services to disabled people and in 2010 he was awarded the Order of St John; in 2011 he became a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes."

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Roger Jefcoate

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Diamond Jubilee QEII - Jefcoate tree

This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroug...

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William Abbot

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Sainsbury brothers, John, Simon and Timothy

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William Penn

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Captain Richard Maples

Captain Richard Maples

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S. R. Gardner

S. R. Gardner

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

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