Sir Hugh Ridley Sykes DL FRSA (born 12 September 1932) is an English industrialist and investor, noted for championing regeneration in and around Sheffield. [1]
Sir Hugh was born in Bristol. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Law. [1]
His public work in South Yorkshire includes:
Sir Hugh is also Chairman of the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, the first museum trust in the country.
His work has been recognised by a series of awards: Honorary Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University, 1991; Deputy Lieutenant for South Yorkshire, 1995; Honorary Doctorate in Laws, University of Sheffield, 1996 and Knight Bachelor in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours, 1997.
He is married to Lady (Ruby) Sykes. For some years they lived at Hallfield House, but they now live at Brookfield Manor, Hathersage which they operate as a wedding venue. [3]
Sir Richard Brook Sykes, is a British microbiologist, the chair of the Royal Institution, the UK Stem Cell Foundation, and the trustees at King Edward VII's Hospital, and chancellor of Brunel University. As of June 2021, he is chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, where he is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, including preparations for booster programmes and encouraging vaccine innovation in the UK.
Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild,, FBA, FKC is a British peer and investment banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. He is also honorary president of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 22nd Earl of Waterford, 7th Earl Talbot,, styled Viscount Ingestre until 1980, is an English nobleman and the Lord High Steward of Ireland. He is the premier earl in the Peerage of England as the Earl of Shrewsbury, and in the Peerage of Ireland as the Earl of Waterford (1446). He also holds the titles of Earl Talbot and Baron Talbot.
Sir John Michael Carlisle is a British marine engineer.
Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale, known as Sir Arthur Balfour from 1923 to 1929 and Sir Arthur Balfour, 1st Baronet, from 1929 to 1935, was a British steel manufacturer.
Sir John MacQueen Ward, is a Scottish businessman.
Sir (Christopher) Jeremy Morse KCMG was an English banker, cruciverbalist and chess composer who was Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1989 to 2003, and was chairman of Lloyds Bank.
Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, was a soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his travels in Persia and Central Asia.
Sir David Roberts McMurtry, is an Irish billionaire, the co-founder and executive chairman of Renishaw plc, the UK's largest supplier of metrology equipment. As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$1.7 billion.
Sir Robert David Hillyer Scott is an English businessman in South London who is noted for his involvement with the International Olympic Committee. Scott was Chairman of the Manchester Olympic Bid Committee's unsuccessful bids in 1996 and 2000, as well as the successful November 1995 bid to play host to the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Scott was knighted in 1994 New Year Honours.
Sir David Aubrey Scott was a British diplomat who served as High Commissioner to New Zealand and Ambassador to South Africa.
Sir John Leopold Egan is a British industrialist, associated with businesses in the automotive, airports, construction and water industries. He was chief executive and chairman of Jaguar Cars from 1980 to 1990 and chairman of Jaguar plc from 1985 to 1990, and then served as chief executive of BAA from 1990 to 1999. He is also notable for chairing the construction industry task force that produced the 1998 Egan Report and the follow-up report, Accelerating Change, in 2002. During 2004, undertook the Egan Review of Skills for Sustainable Communities for the Blair Government. In 2004, after completing two years as president of the Confederation of British Industry, he was appointed chairman of Severn Trent.
Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet was an English officer in the British Army and an author.
The Lupton family in Yorkshire achieved prominence in ecclesiastical and academic circles in England in the Tudor era through the fame of Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College and chaplain to Henry VII and Henry VIII. By the Georgian era, the family was established as merchants and ministers in Leeds. Described in the city's archives as "landed gentry, a political and business dynasty", they had become successful woollen cloth merchants and manufacturers who flourished during the Industrial Revolution and traded throughout northern Europe, the Americas and Australia.
Sir Peter Ingram Walters is a retired British businessman. He is a former CEO and chairman of British Petroleum. He was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in the family of a police inspector.
Sir Stanley John Odell was a British businessman who was Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1989 to 1990, an organisation of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
Sir Duncan Kirkbride Nichol is a British hospital administrator who was the third Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive from 1989 to 1994.
Sir Malcolm Keith Sykes was an English consultant anaesthetist.
Sir James Hugh Neill, was a British businessman, public servant, and British Army officer. Described as a "doyen of the Sheffield steel industry", he worked for his family's tool manufacturing firm, James Neill & Co, following leaving school, until retirement ; he served as the firms chairman between 1963 and 1989, and then its honorary president. He served as Master Cutler for 1958.
Ella Sykes or Ella Constance Sykes was a traveller and writer from the United Kingdom.