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The Beckfoot Estate Company Limited

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Official record Companies House · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 61

  1. Andrew David Merrick 2025-2025 Director View profile
  2. Michael Hall 2024-2025 Director View profile
  3. Philip Venter 2023-2024 Director View profile
  4. David Leslie Cubitt 2023-2024 Director View profile
  5. Malcolm Christian Harding 2023-2025 Director View profile
  6. Dr Roger Clark 2022-2022 Director View profile
  7. Michael Exley 2021-2022 Director View profile
  8. Nigel Howard Bailey 2020-2022 Director View profile
  9. James William Dawson 2019-2023 Director View profile
  10. Jack Redhead 2018-2020 Director View profile
  11. Nicholas James Baker 2018-2018 Director View profile
  12. David John Black 2017-2017 Director View profile
  13. Richard John Bottomley OBE 2017-2018 Director View profile
  14. John Baxter Ireland 2016-2017 Director View profile
  15. John Bretherick 2015-2016 Director View profile
  16. James Scott Simpson 2014-2015 Director View profile
  17. Michael Brown 2013-2019 Director View profile
  18. Brian Malcolm Illingworth 2013-2013 Director View profile
  19. Michael Smith 2012-2014 Director View profile
  20. Angela Margaret Simonett 2012-2023 Director View profile
  21. Jack Gould 2012-2013 Director View profile
  22. John Andrew Heap 2008-2010 Director View profile
  23. Nicholas Julian Gilleard 2007-2008 Director View profile
  24. Michael Edward Smith 2007-2008 Director View profile
  25. Melanie Jane Simpson 2006-2013 Director View profile
  26. Dr Nicholas Stuart Howcroft 2006-2006 Director View profile
  27. Dennis Briggs 2005-2006 Director View profile
  28. Peter Wilkinson 2005-2006 Director View profile
  29. Peter Stewart Flesher 2004-2015 Director View profile
  30. Matthew Simon Sharp 2004-2005 Director View profile
  31. Peter Maclean Fleming 2003-2005 Director View profile
  32. Robert Michael Cockroft 2003-2004 Director View profile
  33. Albert Abraham Waxman 2002-2004 Director View profile
  34. Mark Stephen Emmett 2002-2003 Director View profile
  35. William Mcaulay Gibson 2001-2002 Director View profile
  36. Victoria Fryer 2001-2006 Director View profile
  37. Melvyn Stuart Crowther 2000-2001 Director View profile
  38. Peter Crighton Dyer 2000-2002 Director View profile
  39. Richard Charles Thomas Ackernley 1999-2013 Director View profile
  40. Geoffrey Blackburn 1999-2001 Director View profile
  41. Fred Dawson Wright 1998-2000 Director View profile
  42. John Geoffrey Collins 1998-1999 Director View profile
  43. Richard Peter Cadman 1997-1998 Director View profile
  44. Thomas Shields 1997-1999 Director View profile
  45. Stuart Leonard Holman 1996-1998 Director View profile
  46. Peter Bretherick 1996-1997 Director View profile
  47. Glyn Anthony Brown 1995-2018 Director View profile
  48. Dr John Richard Atkinson 1995-1997 Director View profile
  49. Sunter, Barry, Jp 1994-1995 Director View profile
  50. George Hardwick 1994-1996 Director View profile
  51. Alan Keith Crotch 1993-1994 Director View profile
  52. John Sidney Moore 1993-1995 Director View profile
  53. George Martin Shaw 1992-2011 Director View profile
  54. Alan Christopher Tetlow 1992-1999 Director View profile
  55. Anthony Brian Atkinson 1992-1993 Director View profile
  56. Jack Eyton-Jones 1992 Director View profile
  57. Wallace Alan Heap 1993 Director View profile
  58. Christopher Jean Renard 2021 Director View profile
  59. John Gordon Lodge 2001 Director View profile
  60. David Robert Atkinson 1992-2010 Secretary View profile
  61. John Anthony Charles Williamson 2000 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
19/02/1920
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

9 directors on the board

10.4y median 7.6y
average tenure
26.2y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

0
also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Finance 2Education 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00164251
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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