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Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, GCVO, CBE (12 December 1859 – 15 January 1941), was an English businessman who founded the Castrol lubricants company, was lord mayor of London and was a significant philanthropist.
Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, GCVO, CBE (12 December 1859 – 15 January 1941), was an English businessman who founded the Castrol lubricants company, was lord mayor of London and was a significant philanthropist.
In 1938, there were moves to honour the two men who had helped the British Academy move into its first home ten years earlier. Charles Wakefield (now Viscount Wakefield) was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.
6 de jul. de 2016 · Charles Cheers Wakefield (1859-1941) was a Liverpool-born entrepreneur, and was the man behind Castrol lubricating oil. The Academy had already benefited from his largesse.
Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe primary name: Wakefield, Charles Cheers other name: (Baron) Wakefield
Charles Cheers Wakefield (1859-1941), 1st Viscount Wakefield. 1859 Born in Liverpool the son of John Wakefield (of H. M. Customs), and his wife Margaret, née Cheers, and was educated at the Liverpool Institute. Started work with an oil broker.
Wakefield, Charles Cheers. (1859-1941) Viscount Wakefield, businessman. Charles Cheers Wakefield was born in December 1859, in Liverpool. After schooling at Liverpool Institute, he declined to follow his father into a safe civil-service job and instead joined a Liverpool oil-broking firm.
