Michael Sydney Perry

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Sir Michael Sydney Perry GBE FRSA (born 26 February 1934 [1] ) is a British businessman who was Chairman of Centrica Plc. from 1997 until 10 May 2004. [2] He is currently on the Business Advisory Forum of Oxford Said Business School. [3]

Perry is the son of Lt Cdr Sir Sydney Albert Perry GBE RNVR and Jessie Kate Brooker. He married Joan Mary Stallard and has a son and two daughters. [1]

He was knighted in 1994. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1978, a Commander of the order (CBE) in 1990 and a Knight Grand Cross of the order (GBE) in 2002. [1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Michael Sydney Perry
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Notes
Sir Michael Sydney Perry, of Alfrick in Worcestershire, G.B.E., was granted this Coat of Arms by patent of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated 1 November 2012. College reference: Grants 176/317.
Adopted
1 November 2012
Crest
Issuant from a Circlet composed of C-Clefs alternately reversed Or a Pear Tree per pale Sable and Gules fructed and leaved Or.
Escutcheon
Per pale Sable and Gules a Canton Ermine over all three Pears palewise in bend Or.
Supporters
On either side a Falcon Argent armed and supporting with the interior leg a Tilting Spear Or headed Argent the dexter statant upon a Globe Gules the sinister upon a Globe Sable each inscribed with eight Longitudinal Great Circles and the Equatorial Tropical and Polar Circles Or.
Motto
OPERARI CUM CONCORDIA
Latin: "Work with Unity"
Orders
The circlet and collar of the Order of the British Empire encircle the escutcheon. The badge of a Knight Grand Cross of the same order is suspended from the collar.
Badge
Three Arrows points upwards one palewise two in saltire enfiling a pair of C-Clefs that on the dexter Sable that on the sinister reversed Gules.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3101. ISBN   0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ↑ "Board of directors". Centrica Plc. Centrica Plc. 2003. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
  3. ↑ "Business Advisory Forum". University of Oxford . University of Oxford. 2005. Archived from the original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2008.


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