Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker (9 August 1896 – 22 May 1978) was an English industrialist.
Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist.
Docker was the Managing Director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies (BSA) from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired the Daimler Motor Company.
He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler" (1952), "Blue Clover" (1953), the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman of BSA, following a 1956 boardroom coup.
Docker's first wife was Jeanne Stuart (née Ivy Sweet), a British actress. They married in 1933 but the marriage was soon dissolved after pressure from Docker's parents. His second wife was Norah Collins (née Norah Royce Turner), a former showgirl he married in 1949 as her third husband; she was the widow of Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, and widow of Clement Callingham, the head of Henekeys wine and spirits merchants.
The Dockers were often objects of ridicule because of the ostentatious flaunting of their wealth. In the 1950s they bought and lavishly redecorated Glandyfi Castle in Wales.[1]The comedian Frankie Howerd would often refer to people as "looking a bit like Lady Docker". Lady Docker retorted by saying that she had brought "A bit of glamour to the business of making motorcycles".
Sir Bernard and Lady Docker are both buried in the churchyard of St James the Less, Stubbings, near Maidenhead in Berkshire, along with Norah's first husband Clement Scott Callingham and their daughter Felicity.