Sir Robert Salisbury is an educationalist, and a "leading expert" on education funding.
[2] He is most noted for transforming a failing secondary school in a pit village in Nottinghamshire into a "beacon of success" at the heart of its community, winning a number of awards and attracting a stream of famous visitors.
His five-year plan turned the school round, and by 1993 Salisbury had become recognised as a successful entrepreneur.
[10] Robert Salisbury was born in Newton Drive, Stapleford and moved to Warren Avenue when aged eleven.
He and his wife Rosemary now live in County Tyrone, where they have spent 15 years converting 17 acres of barren fields into a wildlife refuge.