Paul Kenward
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Paul Robert Kenward is a British businessman, managing director of British Sugar and a director of several other companies.
Early life
Born in the Royal Borough of Greenwich,"KENWARD, PAUL ROBERT", in Register of Births for Greenwich Registration District, vol. 5B (1973), p. 834 Kenward was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Buckinghamshire, where he won academic prizes.Beaconsfield Advertiser Wednesday 6 November 1991, page 12 He later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and was President of the Oxford Union in the Trinity term of 1996.
Career
Kenward's directorships include British Sugar, Pride Oils PLC, Westmill Foods, BE International Foods, Mitra Sugar, Davjon Food and various others.[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=242243141&privcapId=5478700 Paul Kenward] at bloomberg.com[https://www.britishsugar.co.uk/about-us/our-managing-director A message from British Sugar MD, Paul Kenward] at BritishSugar.co.uk
In May 2018 it was reported that Kenward was operating Britain's largest legal cannabis farm. His company produces a non-psychoactive variety of the drug which is used in children's epilepsy medicine. His wife, the Conservative minister Victoria Atkins, announced that she would no longer be speaking for the government on cannabis and some other aspects of her drugs brief, with the Home Office commenting that she had "voluntarily recused herself from policy or decisions relating to cannabis".{{cite news |last1=Gilligan |first1=Andrew |title=Drug minister Victoria Atkins's husband oversees cannabis farm |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/drug-minister-victoria-atkinss-husband-oversees-cannabis-farm-hv5q25pqr |work=The Sunday Times |date=13 May 2018 |language=en}}Sheebab Khan, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/drugs-minister-victoria-atkins-hypocrisy-cannabis-paul-kenward-british-sugar-a8356056.html Drugs minister accused of 'hypocrisy on a grand scale' over husband's involvement in legal cannabis farm] in The Independent dated 17 May 2018{{cite news |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Julia |title=British Sugar to cultivate cannabis plants in Norfolk for GW Pharmaceuticals |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/25/british-sugar-to-cultivate-cannabis-plants-in-norfolk-for-gw-pha/ |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=25 October 2016}}
Personal life
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Category:People from Greenwich
Category:Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Category:People educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Category:Presidents of the Oxford Union
Category:British food industry businesspeople
Category:Businesspeople in the sugar industry
Category:Businesspeople in the cannabis industry
Category:Spouses of British politicians
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