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Worcester College.
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Alec Horsley
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Born in Ripley, Derbyshire and educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group), Alec Horsley entered and later abandoned the Colonial Service. He was keen on sport and when he was in Nigeria he played tennis for the country, and when he ceased to play tennis he took up golf. In 1932 he joined his father"s condensed milk business, Pape and Company, Limited., a small Hull-based concern importing Dutch condensed milk for wholesale.
He established a small condensed-milk factory at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in 1937 and expanding it so creating Northern Dairy (later renamed Northern Foods), one of the United Kingdom"s largest food manufacturers.
In 1943 he founded the Hull branch of the Fabian Society, was a city councillor on Hull Council from 1945 to 1949, and Sheriff of Kingston upon Hull in 1953. In 1982 he was given an honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Hull.
He retired as Chairman at Northern Foods in 1987, but remained Life President until he died in Hessle in 1993.
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He was also the founder of Northern Foods. He was a prison reformer and founder membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which led him to support the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, and was made an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford under the Provostship of Asa Briggs, who also wrote his obituary.
Membership
He joined Sir Richard Acland"s Common Wealth Party during the 1940s, participated in the Committee of 100 and was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends.
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United Kingdom