Simon Boyle

Sir Simon Hugh Patrick Boyle (22 March 1941 – 4 September 2020) was a British business executive who was Lord Lieutenant of Gwent from 2001 to 2016.

Biography Boyle was born on 22 March 1941, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick John Salvin Boyle (1910–1944) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Fleetwood Fuller, OBE, JP, DL (1916–1996), the daughter of Major Robert Fleetwood Fuller (1875–1955), JP, DL, of Great Chalfield, Melksham, Wiltshire (of which county he was High Sheriff in 1926). The great-grandson of the seventh Earl of Glasgow, Patrick Boyle had been an aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada between 1935 and 1937, but was killed in action during the Second World War;

Simon Boyle was educated at Eton College, and then worked for Stewarts & Lloyds in Australia and the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1965. He joined Avon Rubber Company in 1966, but left to work for British Steel in 1970, remaining with them (largely at Llanwern, Gwent) until his retirement in 2001. In 1993, he was High Sheriff of Gwent, and he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Gwent in 1997, before becoming the county's Lord Lieutenant in 2001 (serving until 2016); he was also appointed Justice of the Peace and a Companion of the Order of St John in 2002. He served as Chairman of Gwent Criminal Justice Board from 2003 to 2005 and as President of the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations from 2006 to 2016. In 2015, Boyle was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).