Tony Rampton

Anthony Rampton (1915–1993) was a British businessman and philanthropist, and chairman of the clothing retailer Freemans from 1965 to 1984. This was a politically unpopular finding, and was unacceptable to the now-Conservative government: Rampton was dismissed as chair to be replaced by Lord Swann. The committee's 1984 report Education for All came to the same conclusion. house in Petersham, which was then in Surrey and is now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and had three sons, Richard, David and Ben, and a daughter, Elisabeth (Lizzie).

Rampton was also a very accomplished and largely self-taught amateur artist. Over the course of 30 years, he produced 350 paintings, including portraits, landscapes inspired by views of the Thames and of the Isle of Arran in Scotland where he and his family spent the summer months, and many pictures of buildings. He never exhibited during his lifetime but a retrospective exhibition of his work, opened by Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, was held at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham, London in 1997.

He died in London on 30 December 1993, survived by his wife and children.