Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb (11 November 1929 – 8 June 2024) was a Chancellor of the University of Buckingham and Chairman of Canary Wharf Group.
He was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1955 and practised as a barrister until 1968 before embarking upon a successful career in business.
"[2] In 1998, he was appointed the third Chancellor of the University of Buckingham in succession to Baroness Thatcher, who in turn succeeded Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone.
[4] Jacomb wrote that the University of Oxford should become private in order to avoid an authoritarian government imposing restrictions on admissions.
Dependence on government funding, he argued, has had disastrous effects on the higher education sector in continental Europe.