Godfrey bradman biography

Born in London, Godfrey was the son of Anne (nee Goldsweig) and William Bradman.
Godfrey Michael Bradman (9 September 1936 – 25 December 2022) was a British property developer.
He was an eccentric, larger-than-life accountant and property developer who grew rich advising companies how to avoid paying tax on their profits legally.

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Wilderness of frozen assets: As the receivers begin untangling Rosehaugh's tentacles, Gail Counsell traces the path to destruction

GODFREY BRADMAN was in meetings on the day the receivers started to dismember Rosehaugh. He was forced to abandon the ailing property company he had run for more than a decade to its bankers last February, but he is already too busy with other things to return calls about his former obsession.

It is characteristic of the management style that brought down a group which was once one of the most highly rated stocks on the London market.

'Everyone at Rosehaugh seemed to spend their whole time in meetings,' says one analyst. 'No one ever had the time to go out and find out what was going on in the real world. They drowned themselves in paperwork and administration.'

While the men at the top talked, the company ran aground at the bottom.

When the receivers from Peat Marwick turned up at Rosehaugh's headquarters in the Marylebone Lane in London last Tuesday, they found a company with more subsidiaries than employees. Rosehaugh's downfall lay in this lab

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Obituary: Godfrey Bradman

He was an eccentric, larger-than-life accountant and property developer who grew rich advising companies how to avoid paying tax on their profits legally.

But Godfrey Bradman, who has died in his 86th year, also raised funds for a string of radical, arguably even left-wing causes, including the campaign to prohibit lead in petrol, which brought with it the friendship and admiration of the future King Charles III.

Following a lunch with the then Prince of Wales in the 1980s, Bradman announced the Self-Build Housing Initiative, through which funds were raised to enable poor people to build their own homes. Bradman was chairman of the Friends of the Earth Trust and the Campaign for Lead-Free Air.

In 1974 he ostentatiously offered Arthur Scargill’s National Union of Mineworkers some £2.5 million to end a strike. In 1987 he raised funds for the families of victims of the devastating fire at King’s Cross Underground station.

Three years later, as a protest against the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Bill, he arranged for every MP to be sent a plastic

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Dynamic duo who drifted apart

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GODFREY BRADMAN and Stuart Lipton forged a formidable partnership during the last property boom, writes Gail Counsell.

Mr Bradman was the financier with a social conscience, a whiz at developing novel methods of funding ambitious projects. Mr Lipton was the builder with architectural sensibilities, capable of giving clients the sort of developments they would want. In the post-Big Bang City, marked by financial services groups awash with money and hungry for high-quality office space, it was for a time an irresistible combination. But as the market collapsed, their working relationship cooled and each increasingly went his own way.

Shy yet opinionated, Mr Bradman was once capable of turning any discussion into a lecture. His crusading zeal ranged from Aids to lead-free petrol, and he used his wealth to fund causes as varied as anti-abortion organisations and the freedom of information movement.

Born 56 years ago, the son of a poor shopkeeper in North London, he left school at 15 and took an accountancy correspondence course, quali