Campaign for Wool announces new chairman

Peter Ackroyd MBE is to succeed Sir Nicholas Coleridge CBE with immediate effect

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Sir Nicholas Coleridge and Peter Ackroyd
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Sir Nicholas Coleridge and Peter Ackroyd

Coleridge will step down as chair after 14 years to focus on his new role as the 43rd Provost of Eton College and Chair of Historic Royal Palaces. Ackroyd, formerly COO of Campaign for Wool, has been...

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