Cliff Skeggs
Sir Clifford George (Cliff) Skeggs (born 19 March 1931) is a New Zealand businessman from Dunedin, and was Mayor of Dunedin from 1977 to 1989. He was on the Dunedin City Council and Otago Harbour Board, and later was chairman of the port company Port Otago.
He was involved in fishing from 1953, and developed the Skeggs Group of which he was the chairman and chief executive into what was the largest private inshore fishing fleet in New Zealand with investments includiing shipping, aviation (Pacifica Air) and property.
Skeggs was born in Bluff, and was educated at Bluff School and Southland Technical College. He married Marie Ledgerwood in 1951, they have three sons. He lives in Dunedin. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours.[1]
References
- ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 50950, 12 June 1987. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
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