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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield (10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963), was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford, as well as being involved in his role as president of BUPA in creating what is now Nuffield Health.
In 1938 William Morris, Baron Nuffield was raised to Viscount Nuffield. The same year he transferred his newly acquired [11] Riley car business to Morris Motors Limited for £100. [12] Diorama of Both-Nuffield iron lung assembly at Morris Motors Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
Nuffield Organization was the unincorporated umbrella-name or promotional name used for the charitable and commercial interests of owner and donor, William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. The name was assumed following Nuffield's gift made to form his Nuffield Foundation in 1943, it linked his business interests to his existing very generous ...
Wolseley went bankrupt in 1920s and was bought at auction in 1927 by William Morris, later Viscount Nuffield for £730,000 of his own money. Wolseley had begun aero engine development in 1929 but when Lord Nuffield sold Wolseley Motors to Morris Motors on 1 July 1935, he decided to keep aero engine development quite separate and it remained Lord Nuffield's personal property independent of the ...
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After some negotiations, Morris himself bought the Hotchkiss plant and premises for £349,423 (about £15 million at 2009 values) in January 1923 and the business was renamed Morris Engines Ltd. Morris immediately set about a reorganisation and to carry out this task, he appointed F.G. Woollard, who had been known to Morris since 1910, as ...
Nuffield, Oxfordshire, a village in Oxfordshire, England and home of William Richard Morris from which he chose his title, Viscount Nuffield; Nuffield Organization, William Morris's group of motor vehicle manufacturing businesses in the United Kingdom; Nuffield Universal, a make of tractor produced by the Nuffield organisation from 1948 ...
Nuffield, William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount, Philip de László Archive Trust (English) Art UK artwork ID: william-richard-morris-18771963-lord-nuffield-benefactor-223527 "ill." in (3 July 1937) The Illustrated London News, p. 6 "f. cov., ill." in (7 August 1937) Country Life, 82 (5 December 1937) The New York Times; Source