Carole Bamford
Carole Bamford (Lady Bamford) is the head of retailer Daylesford Organic and the wife of JCB chairman Sir Anthony Bamford.[1]
Background
W Magazine reports:
- Bamford has distinctly middle-class origins. She was born in Nottingham to the owner of a house-building firm and, what’s more, had an early stint as a flight attendant. Mention Bamford’s name in snobby circles and you might well get a knowing look and then a whispered “Doors to manual.” This snide sobriquet is hardly uncommon; it has also been lobbed on the mother of Kate Middleton. In Bamford’s case, the expression seems directed with more zing, probably because she has become so rich and so grand—rather unforgivable offenses in ossified upper-class England.[1]
Daylesford Organic
Bamford founded Daylesford Organic in the early 2000s to market produce from the Daylesford estate. She has also established women's and men's fashion lines, Bamford and Bamford & Sons.[1]
The Daylesford shop has been credited as a factor in the emergence of the "Chipping Norton Set".[2]
In December 2009, Daylesford Organic was ordered to pay more than £90,000 after gardener Tony Cripps fell to his death from a JCB digger while picking elderflowers.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 James Reginato, Lady Bountiful, W Magazine, December 2007.
- ↑ Cheryl Markosky, How did the 'Chipping Norton set' come about?, PrimeLocation, 21 September 2011.
- ↑ Daylesford Organic farms fined £90,000 over worker's death, Telegraph, 12 December 2009.
