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A LIFE
Morris Clegg
 UK
Price £8.59
$15.95
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A Life
by Morris Clegg
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UK price: £8.59
Our price: $15.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 172
ISBN: 0-595-34300-7
Published: Feb-2005
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Other Formats: Hard
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£13.98 $25.95
Not just an autobiography, A Life is a historical record of achievement, from pre-war childhood to post-war retirement, taking in school, training ship, the sea, the commercial world, home and family.
Book Description
While Morris Clegg’s book purports to be an autobiography, it is in effect a remarkable chronicle of achievement and success—a ‘how to’ manual on how to succeed in life, whether at sea or in business, written from personal experience by a man who was not afraid to take risks, and who, apart from establishing a ‘laundry’ empire as a successful industrialist, became sought after by banks, financial institutions and investment panels to advise on new businesses. Reflecting on his experiences in factory planning, company acquisitions and management, Morris inadvertently offers a wealth of commonsense advice on many aspects of business and personnel management. For anyone interested in the realization of personal and business goals, with the necessary ingredients of resilience, commitment and perseverance, this book is a ‘must read’!
About the author
Morris
Clegg was born 1930 in
Prescot,
Lancashire
. Educated
Cowley
School
, St.Helens and H.M.S.Conway,
anchored in the Menai Straits. Cadet with Union Castle Mail Steam Ship Co.
Ltd. After securing 2nd Mates Sea Going Certificate, came
ashore and became involved in the commercial world. Married with four
children and eleven grandchildren. A Reader in the Anglican Church for
nearly half a century. Also, an accomplished pianist, with his own series
of three CD releases: Morris at the Piano.
Available from the following
on-line bookstores:


H.M.S. Conway
Morris
Clegg’s book is a readable and entertaining chronicle, in the
first place, of a childhood that began in the uncertain peace of
the thirties followed by the war years of the forties, and then by
the closing stages of the war with the account of a two-year spell
on a training ship, H.M.S. Conway. The author then takes us
to sea on ships that sailed the waters of the
Far East
,
America
,
Africa
,
Europe
, and continues through
the years that saw the beginning of the end of the
British Empire
, of war torn
Japan
, including a visit to
Hiroshima
, of an
India
excited by impending
independence. The commercial world follows with all its ups and
downs, its stresses and strains, its human relationships and
tensions. And interwoven through the last forty-six years of this
chronicle is a marriage that began with love at first sight of a
girl on a bike! Underpinning the whole is a faith that has
survived all that life has thrown at it.
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