Michael Ashcroft
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Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and was the 132nd richest person in the UK, as ranked by the Sunday Times Rich List 2021, with an estimated fortune of £1.257 billion.
Ashcroft in 2015
Ashcroft's bust In the lobby of the Lord Ashcroft Building at the business school of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, from where he earned a Higher National Diploma in business studies.
VP-BZE, Ashcroft's private jet, at Birmingham Airport in 2014
Anglia Ruskin University's Lord Ashcroft Building, opened in 2003 in Chelmsford by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. It houses the Faculty of Business and Law.
Anglia Ruskin University
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Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art (CSA), founded by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at University of Cambridge, in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin, the Oxford University professor and author, in 2005. Ruskin gave the inauguration speech of the Cambridge School of Art in 1858. It is one of the "post-1992 universities". The motto of the university is in Latin Excellentia per societatem, in English Excellence through partnership. Anglia Ruskin University was named University of the Year 2023 by Times Higher Education.
Main entrance to Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus
Lord Ashcroft Building at ARU Cambridge.
The Cambridge School of Art at ARU Cambridge.
Young Street at ARU Cambridge. Tribute to NHS heroes during the Covid pandemic.