Sir Clifford Jack Chetwood FRSA (2 November 1928 – 9 February 2009) was a British business man who was chairman of George Wimpey, a major construction company, in the 1980s and 1990s.
[3] In June 1987, Chetwood was knighted, with The London Gazette noting that he was chairman and chief executive of George Wimpey PLC.
[4][5] As head of Wimpey in the 1980s and early 1990s, Chetwood was a major player in the construction of the Channel Tunnel by the TransManche Link consortium.
[8] On 8 October 1992, Chetwood appeared on an episode of BBC Television’s Question Time broadcast from the Conservative Party conference in Brighton, with Gordon Brown, Michael Howard, and Paddy Ashdown, who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats,[9] while Brown and Howard later led the other two major British political parties.
[11] Chetwood was an enthusiastic real tennis player and three times won the Billy Ross-Skinner British Mixed Invitation Doubles.