Obituary: Sir Denis Rooke
                   
guardian.co.uk
07-Sep-2008 1 related
        

British Gas chief who went to war with Nigel Lawson over privatisation There were quite a few raised establishment eyebrows when Sir Denis Rooke, who has died aged 84, became a member of the Order of Merit in 1997. What was a gas engineer doing alongside the likes of Lord Menuhin, Baroness Thatcher, Lucian Freud, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Joan Sutherland and the Duke of Edinburgh? But the Queen had decided that... [read full story]                    

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