David Rowe-Beddoe, Baron Rowe-Beddoe

David Sidney Rowe Beddoe was born on 19 December 1937, as the son of Sydney Rowe Beddoe a travelling salesman and Gwendolan Evans a singing teacher.

Rowe-Beddoe's early education was at The Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff, where he won the Victor Ludorum in 1951. He attended Stowe School at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, and St John's College, Cambridge.[http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=ROWE-BEDDOE Burkes Peerage, Rowe-Beddoe.]

In 1964, Rowe-Beddoe married Malinda Collison, and the union produced three daughters. The couple were divorced in 1982. He remarried in 1984, to Madeleine Harrison.

Rowe-Beddoe's career in business began at Thomas De La Rue in 1961; and he rose to the position of Chief Executive from 1971 through 1976. At Revlon, he was president, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa from 1976 through 1981. He also served as president, Morgan Stanley-GFTA Ltd from 1983 through 1991.[http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=aboutus Wales Millennium Centre:] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216100835/http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=aboutus |date=16 February 2009 }} [http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?UUID=C6B90A73-BEB0-06BD-E349207565FF0DF6 Rowe-Beddow bio.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025095615/http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?UUID=C6B90A73-BEB0-06BD-E349207565FF0DF6 |date=25 October 2007 }}

Rowe-Beddoe was known as a Monaco-based businessman and a Tory party fund-raiser when an opportunity arose for him to be appointed to a Welsh quango;Jones, Bill. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ichjq_TiudUC&dq=David+Rowe-Beddoe&pg=PA290 Political Issues in Britain Today], p. 290. and that opportunity led to others. He was appointed chairman of the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) in July 1993; and the term of this appointment was nine years.Jones, Robert. "Changing chairs; Face-to-Face with Sir David Rowe-Beddoe," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales). 29 December 2001. He was invested as a Knight Bachelor in the 2000 Birthday Honours "for services to Industrial and Economic Development in Wales."{{London Gazette |issue=55879 |date=19 June 2000 |page=1 |supp=y}}{{London Gazette |issue=56136 |date=2 March 2001 |page=2633}}

In 2001, Sir David Rowe-Beddoe was appointed the Chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre; and he remained in this post.[http://www.beaconfellowship.org.uk/biography2004_drbeddoe.asp Rowe-Beddoe biography], Beacon Fellowship

In 2004, Sir David Rowe-Beddoe was appointed president of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama having previously been a governor and chairman of the board.

In 2005, he received the Beacon Prize for Wales for his contribution to the economic and social development of Wales.[http://www.beaconfellowship.org.uk/press_releases.asp?rel=1067&showall=true Beacon Prize for Wales 2004], Beacon Fellowship.

On 15 June 2006, he was created a life peer as Baron Rowe-Beddoe, of Kilgetty in the County of Dyfed.{{London Gazette |issue=58024 |date=21 June 2006 |page=8459}}[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/the_hitch/article684585.ece "Baronies, Baron Rowe-Beddoe,"]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The Times (London). 8 July 2006.

In April 2007, Lord Rowe-Beddoe was created Pro-Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe was a Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority[http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/meet-the-board/lord-rowe-beddoe-of-kilgety UK Statistics Authority] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928154644/http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/meet-the-board/lord-rowe-beddoe-of-kilgety |date=28 September 2008 }} who held responsibility for the governance of the Office for National Statistics.

An Anglican, Lord Rowe-Beddoe was chairman of the Representative Body of The Church in Wales from 2002 to 2012.

{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tributes-lord-david-rowe-beddoe-retires-2019016|title = Tributes to Lord David Rowe-Beddoe as he retires from Church in Wales|date = 27 November 2012}}

Lord Rowe-Beddoe died on 15 November 2023, at the age of 85.{{cite news |title=Cardiff-born businessman Lord David Rowe-Beddoe dies aged 85 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67430566 |access-date=16 November 2023 |publisher=BBC News |date=15 November 2023}}

• Cardiff University, Honorary fellow, 1999.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/fellows/index.html |title=Cardiff, Honorary fellow. |access-date=23 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919084459/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/fellows/index.html |archive-date=19 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}
• University of Wales, Honorary degree (DScEcon), 2004.[http://www.wales.ac.uk/defaultpage.asp?page=E25 Wales, Honorary degree.]
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2008.Embassy of Japan in the U.K.: [http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/081212rowebeddoe.html "Japanese Government honors Lord David Sydney Rowe-Beddoe,"] 18 December 2008.
• University of Glamorgan, Honorary Doctor
• University of Aberystwyth, Honorary fellow
• UWIC, Honorary Fellow
• UWCN, Honorary Fellow
• Deputy Lieutenant of Gwent

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|year_adopted = 2008

|coronet = Coronet of a Baron

|escutcheon = Gules papillonny Or on a pale Argent a pallet Gules.

|crest = A demi roebuck Gules attired Or and supporting a Welsh triple harp Or.{{cite book|title=Debrett'sPeerage |date=2019 |page=4207}}

|supporters = On either side a Dragon reguardant Gules anciently crowned and gorged with a plain collar attached thereto a chain reflexed over the back Or.

|badge = Two Welsh triple Harps addorsed each front pillar terminating in a roebuck's head Or.

|motto = Duw A'Ch Cynhalio

|symbolism = The grantee was Chairman of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. His connection with music and the theatre is reflected in the Arms where the papillonny suggests theatre seats, the pale and pallet forming a central red-carpeted aisle. The dragons and the Welsh triple harps are an obvious allusion to Wales and music with the roebuck providing a pun on Rowe.

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• Hill, Stephen, Brian Morgan and David Rowe-Beddoe. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=YdM3HQAACAAJ&q=Inward+Investment,+Business+Finance+and+Regional+Development+... Inward Investment, Business Finance and Regional Development,] Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan. {{ISBN|978-0-333-66827-6}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/39861489 OCLC 39861489]
• Jones, Bill. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ichjq_TiudUC Political Issues in Britain Today.] Manchester: Manchester University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-7190-5432-7}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/41017782 OCLC 41017782]

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