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Philip Harris Biography & Facts
Philip Charles Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham (born 15 September 1942), is an English businessman and politician. A prominent Conservative Party donor, Harris is a member of the House of Lords. He is the sponsor of a large multi-academy trust, the Harris Federation. Interests Business Harris is currently an advisor and shareholder of Tapi Carpets, a flooring retailer set up recently by a number of the old Carpetright management team. Harris was the Chairman of Carpetright plc and has over fifty years' experience in carpet retailing. Harris left Carpetright in 2014, sold all of his shares and he is no longer associated with the company. He was chairman and chief executive of Harris Carpets. Harris Carpets acquired Queensway in 1977 to become Harris Queensway plc until the company was taken over in 1988. Harris was also a non-executive director of Great Universal Stores plc for 18 years, retiring from the GUS Board in July 2004. Harris became a non-executive director of Matalan in October 2004. Football He was appointed to the board of Arsenal Football Club as a non-executive director in November 2005. Equestrian interests Harris is the co-owner of the horse Hello Sanctos, which won a gold medal with Scott Brash in the team show jumping event at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Harris and Lord Kirkham bought the horse for an estimated €2 million at the start of 2012. They are also co-owners of the horses Hello Sailor, Hello Unique and Hello Boyo. Politics Conservative Party donations Harris has been a donor to the Conservative Party since the 1980s and was a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher. He also made donations to David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party and Michael Gove. Comments on Theresa May In a September 2017 interview with The Times he described Theresa May as very indecisive, hopeless during the general election campaign which she should have won easily, and leading a weak, directionless government. Other comments made included his opposition to an expansion of grammar schools, May u-turning on too many decisions such as the so-called dementia tax, and the Home Office not reducing net migration to the tens of thousands as repeatedly promised. Harris spoke about potential candidates on who could succeed May as Conservative Party Leader. Harris Federation academies He has contributed extensively to education and as a result, many schools and colleges (such as Harris Manchester College, Oxford) bear his name. Through the Harris Federation, many secondary schools in South London have received Harris donations. In the London Borough of Croydon, he helped to found the Harris City Technology College, Harris Academy South Norwood and Harris Academy Merton, Harris Academy Purley, Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, Harris Academy Peckham although many local residents are angered that the original name of the Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich, Stanley Technical High School, was dropped in place of the Harris name. In recent years, the forced change to academy status has placed additional schools under the management of the Harris Federation despite considerable opposition from Boards of Governors and parents. Personal life Sunday Times Rich List Harris ranked 206th in the Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated wealth of £285m. Honours Harris was knighted in 1985. He was made a life peer as Baron Harris of Peckham, in the London Borough of Southwark on 11 January 1996. His wife, Pauline, was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2004. References. Discover the Philip Harris popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Philip Harris books.
Best Seller Philip Harris Books of 2024
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The Gods Look Down
Trevor HoyleWhen an ancient religious text reveals that nuclear physics capable of creating a new species of man existed in Biblical times, the mystified scientists of Earth IVn realise that s...
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Dead in the Water
Mark Ellis'This is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I've read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots and deep characterisation, and, ...
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The Girl in the Wilderness
Philip HarrisNow that she's alone, Leah has nothing left to lose…When Leah sees the Transport Authority destroy another village, she remains cold as she flees back into the wilderness. Her only...
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The Ocean of Time
David WingrovePart Two of The Roads to MoscowThe War For Time Continues.From the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia to the battle of Paltava in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged an unquesti...
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A Kill in the Morning
Graeme Shimmin‘I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Closeup work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a kni...
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In The Shadows
Gilles Boyer & Édouard PhilippeLoved House of Cards?'Utterly fascinating.' Perlustra'Absolutely brilliant.' BertrandHe thought the worst was behind them. The primaries done and dusted. The Presidency within ar...
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Gods of Wood and Stone
Mark Di IonnoTwo men from disparate worlds search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood in this “ro...
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Hands of the Ripper
Guy AdamsHe is raising the poker again and Anna bites her lower lip so hard she chokes a little in the blood that runs down her throat...On a cold, wet night recently widowed psychology lec...
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Empire City
Matt Gallagher“Empire City is a dark, nimble book that pulls no punches. While the novel tracks an alternate historical reality, time and again I found myself taken aback at just how prescient a...
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Glitch Mitchell and the Island of Terror
Philip HarrisWhen the aircraft carrying Dwayne "Glitch" Mitchell and his friends is struck by lightning, they crash land on an island filled with creatures from Earth's distant past. Scientific...
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Kill the Father
Sandrone DazieriIn this “absolutely electrifying” (Jeffrey Deaver) thriller and huge international hit, two peopleeach shattered by their pastteam up to solve a series of killings and abductions t...
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The Girl in the Machine
Philip HarrisFor teenager Leah King, the war against the authoritarian Transport Agency is personal. Under the mentorship of Sergeant Alice Williams, she's learning how to travel through the vi...
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Selected Letters
CiceroThe greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminat...
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The Girl in the City
Philip HarrisWith the oppressive Transport Authority controlling every aspect of their existence, Leah and her father do what they can to carve a good life for themselves. Leah spends her night...
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The Empire of Time
David WingroveThere is only the war.Otto Behr is a German agent, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia, manipulating history for moments in time that can change everything.Onl...
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The Leah King Trilogy
Philip HarrisWith the oppressive Transport Authority controlling every aspect of their existence, Leah and her father do what they can to carve out a good life for themselves. Leah spends her n...
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Pod Fifteen
Philip HarrisEllis Osako is piloting the Redhawk across deep space with nothing but an AI and a cargo hold full of dead bodies for company. Haunted by his past, he spends his time trying to gue...
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Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet
Philip HarrisA gateway to another world. A lucky contest winner. An adventure across the cosmos!Dwayne "Glitch" Mitchell has always been obsessed with space. When he learns that NASA has discov...
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Nightfall Berlin
Jack Grimwood'Noteperfect, multilayered, rugged as a T34 tank. Grimwood is about to become your new favourite thriller writer' IndependentA tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that dro...
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State Missouri v. Phillip K. Harris
Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2On January 18, 1956, when Louise Okee, now described by the appellant Phillip K. Harris as "his lady friend," attempted to terminate their illicit relationship (he was t...
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The Master of Time
David WingrovePart Three of The Roads to MoscowThe war for time is reaching its endAs the German and Russian forces seek to destroy a third, seemingly unstoppable faction, Otto Behr reluctantly ...
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Time Shards
Dana Fredsti & David FitzgeraldIT’S CALLED “THE EVENT,” AN UNIMAGINABLE CATACLYSM THAT SHATTERS 600 MILLION YEARS OF THE EARTH’S TIMELINE. Our world is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of scattere...
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Moskva
Jack GrimwoodLonglisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller'Even better than Child 44' Daily Telegraph'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow already exist...
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This Will Not Pass
Jonathan Martin & Alexander BurnsThe “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times rep...
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Island Reich
Jack GrimwoodAN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the awardwinning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow'I...
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The Spring of Kasper Meier
Ben FergussonFergusson has already won two awards for this gripping and atmospheric debut, a thriller set amid the rubble of a defeated Berlin in 1945...Original and highly accomplished' Sunday...
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The White Devil
Paul HoffmanTHE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIESAmerica is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . .Thomas Cale the world's most dange...