David Norman (businessman)

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David Mark Norman (born 30 January 1941) is an English management consultant and businessman, from a prominent City dynasty, now retired from executive positions.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Family 4 Clubs 5 Recreations 6 References

[edit] Education

He was educated at Eton, McGill University (BA) and Harvard Business School (MBA).

[edit] Career

• Norcros Ltd (1967-1977), Director of Operations and Main Board Director (1975-1977)
• Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. (1977-1982), Executive Chairman (1977-1978); Managing Director]] (1978-1982)
• Norman Broadbent Ltd, Chairman (1982-1983)
• Norman Broadbent International, Chairman (1983-1998)
• BNB Resources PLC, Non-Executive Director 1987, Chairman and Chief Executive (1987-1997), Executive Chairman (1997-1998)
• Alex. Brown & Sons Inc., Non-executive Director (1992-1996)
• Norlan Resources Ltd, Chairman (1998 to date)

Charitable positions

• The Tennis and Racquets Association, Chairman (1982-1997)
• Royal Ballet School, Governor 1996, Chairman (2000 to date)^[1]
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Trustee (2002 to 2007)^[2]

[edit] Family

Norman represents the fourth generation of the Norman family City dynasty. His great-grandfather Frederick Henry Norman was a director of Brown, Shipley & Co., his grandfather Ronald Collet Norman was a merchant banker and politician who chaired the Board of Governors of the BBC and the London County Council, his great-uncle Sir Montagu Norman, the 1st Baron Norman was a long-serving Governor of the Bank of England and his father Mark Norman was Chairman of the merchant bankers Lazard Brothers and the cigarette manufacturers Gallahers. Both Ronald Collet Norman and Mark Norman became successful administrators with the National Trust.

He married Diana Anne Sheffield (b. 1942) in 1966. His wife is a cousin of Sir Reginald Sheffield, the 8th baronet (father-in-law of the new Tory leader David Cameron), and second daughter of John Vincent Sheffield. They have four children:

• 1) Anna Helen Norman (born 1967)
• 2) Isabella Julia Norman (born 1971) married The Honourable Timothy Knatchbull (1998), youngest surviving son of the Countess Mountbatten of Burma and her late husband the 7th Baron Brabourne. Her husband is a grandson maternally of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and in remainder to that peerage. The wedding was attended by members of the British Royal Family, since Lord Mountbatten was maternal uncle to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. They have issue four children. Miss Norman is now The Honourable Mrs Timothy Knatchbull.
• 3) Jonathan Mark Ronald Norman (born 1972) who is married, and has a young daughter, who is notable for being the thirtieth great-grandchild of her nonagenarian great-grandfather John Vincent Sheffield CBE (b. 1913), of the Sheffield baronets.
• 4) Davina Penelope Norman (born 1981)

[edit] Clubs

• Boodle's, Queen's, All England Lawn Tennis.

[edit] Recreations

• Ballet, European classical music, Golf, Opera, Racquets, Tennis

[edit] References

Sources

• Usenet group alt.talk.royalty on which the wedding and family details of the Norman-Knatchbull union have been posted, including the ancestryof Isabella Julia Norman, now Knatchbull.

• Ancestry of Mr Norman in part here from alt.talk.royalty