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'''William Cockcroft''' [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] is the former [[Scout Commissioner|Chief Scout Commissioner]] of [[The Scout Association|England]] and was director of the [[21st World Scout Jamboree]].<ref>[http://www.lord-lieutenant-kent.info/kent%20lieutenants/ Lieutenancy of Kent website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702235756/http://www.lord-lieutenant-kent.info/kent%20lieutenants/ |date=July 2, 2012 }}</ref> |
'''William Cockcroft''' [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] is the former [[Scout Commissioner|Chief Scout Commissioner]] of [[The Scout Association|England]] and was director of the [[21st World Scout Jamboree]].<ref>[http://www.lord-lieutenant-kent.info/kent%20lieutenants/ Lieutenancy of Kent website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702235756/http://www.lord-lieutenant-kent.info/kent%20lieutenants/ |date=July 2, 2012 }}</ref> |
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Cockcroft was educated at [[The Judd School]], leaving in 1965, and graduated from the [[London South Bank University|Polytechnic of the South Bank]] in 1970, majoring in Quantity Surveying. |
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He is Senior Partner of Sawyer Fisher Chartered Quantity Surveyors, which he joined in June 1965. |
He is Senior Partner of Sawyer Fisher Chartered Quantity Surveyors, which he joined in June 1965. |
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In 2008, Cockcroft was awarded the ''[[Bronze Wolf]]'', the only distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], awarded by the [[World Scout Committee]] for exceptional services to world [[Scouting]], at the 38th World Scout Conference.<ref>[https://archive. |
In 2008, Cockcroft was awarded the ''[[Bronze Wolf]]'', the only distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], awarded by the [[World Scout Committee]] for exceptional services to world [[Scouting]], at the 38th World Scout Conference.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130416111801/http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/events/node_214/node_2547/38th_world_scout_conference/38th_world_scout_conference_summary World Organisation of the Scout Movement website]</ref> |
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William Cockcroft DL is the former Chief Scout Commissioner of England and was director of the 21st World Scout Jamboree.[1]
Cockcroft was educated at The Judd School, leaving in 1965, and graduated from the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1970, majoring in Quantity Surveying.
He is Senior Partner of Sawyer Fisher Chartered Quantity Surveyors, which he joined in June 1965.
In 2008, Cockcroft was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the 38th World Scout Conference.[2]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Lieutenancy of Kent website Archived July 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ World Organisation of the Scout Movement website
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