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business, where he became a contracts manager. He then bought his own construction business, Bridge Walker, which he expanded significantly before selling it to
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as Fleet Holdings with Matthews as its chairman. Matthews renamed the business Express Newspapers after its lead publication, the
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In 1977 Trafalgar House acquired Beaverbrook Newspapers and in 1982, it was floated on the
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and educated at Highbury School, Victor Matthews initially worked as an office boy for a
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In 1942 he married Joyce Geraldine Pilbeam; the couple had one son.
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This article about a British businessperson born in the 1910s is a
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Victor Matthews at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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weekend, two days before the building was to be listed.
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Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
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British business biography, 20th-century birth stubs
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Group Managing Director
Trafalgar House
United Kingdom
proprietor
Daily Express
Islington
tobacco
World War II
able seaman
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Dunkirk
Trollope & Colls
construction
Trafalgar House
Group Managing Director
Chairman
London Stock Exchange
Daily Express
Trafalgar House
Firestone tyre factory
Art Deco
architecture
listed building
bank holiday
Life Peer
Southgate
London Borough of Enfield
United Newspapers
Jersey

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