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| Rupert Christopher Soames [CFT #1094] Born: 1959 |
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| b Croydon The Hon Rupert Christopher Soames of Cuddington, Buckinghamshire. While up at Oxford he worked as a DJ at the London nightclub Annabel's and was a member of Bullingdon as well as being elected to the Presidency of the Oxford Union. He featured somewhat colourfully in the Sunday Times 1981 article on Oxford. On coming down he was offered a position at GEC by the managing director, Arnold Weinstock. He remained at at GEC for 15 years, working in the avionics and computing divisions and becoming managing director of Avery Berkel running the company's UK, India, Asia and Africa operations. After leaving GEC in 1997, Soames joined the software company Misys as chief executive of its Midas-Kapiti division. He was promoted to chief executive of the Banking and Securities Division in June 2000. He left Misys and was appointed chief executive of power hire group Aggreko in June 2003 replacing Philip Harrower who died when his car collided with a train in the US. Appointed OBE in the 2010 New Year Honours he gave a speech at Holyrood in which he warned, "In the UK we are already close to the rocks, because, over the next 8 years a third of our coal-fired capacity, two-thirds of our oil-fired capacity, and nearly three-quarters of our nuclear capacity will be closed down either through age or the impact of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. Absent a massive and immediate programme of building new power stations, with concrete being poured in the next two years, we will be in danger of the lights going out." Rupert's brother, Sir Nicholas Soames was a Conservative MP from 1983 until his retirement in 2019. The Soames' have three children; Arthur born 1990, Daisy born 1992 and Jack born 1994. In the Daily Telegraph of 24th January 2023 Jack's engagement was announced as follows: Mr JWT Soames and Miss EC Cator. The engagement is announced between Jack, younger so of the Hon Rupert and Mrs Soames of Buckinghamshire and Eleanor, youngest daughter of Mrs Charles Cator and the late Mr Charles Cator of Norfolk. |
1: 1990 Arthur Christopher Soamesc 2: 1992 Daisy Soames 3: 1994 Jack W T Soames W | |||||||||||||||||||
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