David Norman

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This page is on the English businessman. For the former Canadian soccer player see David Norman (soccer).

David Mark Norman (born 30 January 1941) is an English management consultant and entrepreneur.

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[edit] Background

He represents the fourth generation of a 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.

[edit] Education

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

[edit] Family Life

He married Diana 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)

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

[edit] Career

[edit] Clubs

[edit] Recreations

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