About Nicholas Cayzer
Lived 1910 – 1999 (aged 88–89). Nicholas Cayzer was a British ship-owner and politician.
William Nicholas Cayzer, Baron Cayzer (21 January 1910 – 16 April 1999), known as Sir Nicholas Cayzer, 2nd Baronet from 1943 to 1982, was a British ship-owner responsible for amalgamating the Clan Line, Union-Castle Line, King Line and Bullard King & Company to form the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co. Ltd.
Educated at Eton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, he was the elder son of Sir August Cayzer, 1st Baronet, whom he followed into the shipping business and succeeded in the baronetcy.
In 1944 he became chairman of the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association.
He married Elizabeth Williams of Aberpergwm House and they had two daughters, one of whom married the son of Michael Colvin, giving him two grand-daughters and a grandson.
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Who was Nicholas Cayzer?
English shipowner (1910-1999)
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Nicholas Cayzer was born in 1910.
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Nicholas Cayzer died in 1999.
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Nicholas Cayzer was a ship-owner and politician.
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Nicholas Cayzer was British.
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· DBpedia: Nicholas Cayzer, Baron Cayzer
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