Records of Bernard Sunley on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Bernard Sunley in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bernard Sunley and the Sunley Family Tree

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Some Famous People called Bernard Sunley

Bernard Sunley

Bernard Sunley (4 November 1910 – 20 November 1964) was a British property developer, and the founder of Bernard Sunley & Sons.

Born at Catford in south-east London, he was educated at St Ann's School in Hanwell. After leaving school aged 14 he hired a horse and cart to move earth, and then moved into the landscape gardening business. One of his first major contracts was re-laying the pitch at Highbury for Arsenal FC.

From earth-moving Sunley moved into the open-cast mining business. In 1940, he founded Bernard Sunley & Sons. During the Second World War he built over 100 airfields, and in 1942 he purchased the business of Blackwood Hodge, then a supplier of agricultural machinery and later a successful plant hire and sale business. He subsequently "ranked alongside the most successful property developers of the 1950s property boom".

Sunley campaigned as a Conservative Party candidate for Ealing West in 1945, but was unsuccessful.

Sunley established the Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation in 1960 with a pledge of £300,000-worth of shares. As of 2011, it had made grants of more than £92 million.

He died in 1964. His son, John Sunley (died 2011) was a property developer and philanthropist. His grandson is Richard Tice, a businessman and leader of Reform UK.

Bernard Sunley Hall, named after him, was a hall of residence for Imperial College London students on Evelyn Gardens Square.

Source: Bernard Sunley, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Sunley

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