Duncan Henry Davidson (born 29 March 1941) is the founder of Persimmon plc, one of the United Kingdom's largest housebuilding businesses.
[1] Davidson is the grandson of the 15th Duke of Norfolk and educated at Ampleforth College.
He was a pageboy at the Coronation of Elizabeth II and nine years later worked as a labourer on London's Blackwall Tunnel.
[3] In 1972, he founded Persimmon plc and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest housebuilding businesses.
[3] He owns 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land in Northumberland and lives at Lilburn Tower near Wooler.