Cyril Lord was a British

United Kingdom

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 entrepreneur

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 known principally for the manufacture of carpets during the 1960s. Born at Droylsden

Droylsden

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, Lancashire

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, Lord spent his early years living in a community of textile

Textile

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 mill

Cotton mill

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-workers.

Lord was married three times. In 1936 he married Bessie Greenwood, they had one son and two daughters before divorcing in 1959. In 1960, he married the author

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 and journalist

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 Shirley Florence Hussey (née Stringer – later married to journalist Abe Rosenthal) with whom he had one son, they divorced in 1973. In 1974 Lord married Aileen Parnell, widow of the impresario Val Parnell

Val Parnell

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Lord died at his home on Barbados

Barbados

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following a long illness.

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