About David Telling
Lived 1938 – 2003 (aged 64–65). David Telling was a British businessperson.
David Malcolm Telling was the founder of MITIE Group, which is now one of the United Kingdom's largest facilities management companies. Born in Harrow, North London on 12 August 1938 and brought up in Cleeve in Somerset, David Telling was educated at Cheltenham College. He died on 31 October 2003, aged 65. He guarded Rudolf Hess at Spandau Prison and saw active service during the Malayan Emergency.
Following a stay in hospital himself, he established the David Telling Charitable Trust to support medical research in the Bristol area.
Family In 1964 he married Jane Piggott and together they have two daughters, Louise and Susy.
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