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Tony Marchington
Anthony Frank Marchington (2 December 1955[1] – 16 October 2011[2]) was an English biotechnology entrepreneur and businessman, famous as the co-founder of Oxford Molecular, and the former owner of the famous Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman locomotive.[3]
Early life
Born in Buxton, Derbyshire,[1] he was brought up on the family farm in Buxworth.
He passed his motorcycle test at the age of 16, having learned to ride his father's 1914 Bradbury motorcycle and sidecar combination.[4] He attended New Mills Grammar School. He gained his bachelor's degree, master's and D.Phil.
at Brasenose College, Oxford.[4]
Association with Walter Hooper
While at Oxford, Marchington befriended and later lodged with American Walter Hooper, the last personal secretary of the writer C.S.
Lewis. Through this relationship Marchington shared a lectern with Hooper in 1975 in North Carolina,[5] co-wrote the s