Tony Marchington

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Marchington
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Dec 2, 1955(1955-12-02)
Age	69
Date Of Death	October 16, 2011, Buxton, United Kingdom
Birthplace	Buxton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Tony Marchington Biography

Tony Marchington is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on December 2, 1955 in Buxton, England, United Kingdom.

Dr Anthony Frank (Tony) Marchington (2 December 1955 – 16 October 2011) was an English biotechnology entrepreneur and businessman, famous as the co-founder of Oxford Molecular, and the former owner of the famous Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman locomotive.

While at Oxford, Marchington befriended and later lodged with American Walter Hooper, the last personal secretary of the writer C.S. Lewis. Through this relationship Marchington shared a lectern with Hooper in 1975 in North Carolina, co-wrote the script of Through Joy and Beyond (the 1977 documentary life of Lewis), and created the Lewis bonfire hoax letter, sent to Christianity and Literature in 1978.

Tony Marchington Net Worth

Tony Marchington is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Marchington 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, he was brought up on the family farm in Buxworth. He passed his motorcycle test at the age of 16, having learned to ride his father’s 1914 Bradbury motorcycle and sidecar combination. He attended New Mills Grammar School. He gained his bachelor’s degree, master’s and D.Phil. at Brasenose College, Oxford.

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In 1996, Marchington bought the famous LNER steam locomotive Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman at a cost of £1.5M. After a three-year restoration which cost an additional £1M, she returned to steam in 1999. She made an appearance on Peak Rail in summer 2000, together with most of the Buxworth Steam Group collection.

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Shane Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tony Marchington celebrates birthday on December 2 of every year.

In 1997, Marchington purchased LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern from the family of Geoff Drury, which he also based at the Southall Railway Centre. However, after the completion of the £1 million over-budget restoration of Flying Scotsman was complete, he sold Bittern in 2000 to Jeremy Hosking, who moved her to the Mid-Hants Railway in Hampshire in January 2001, for a major restoration. Despite this, the ownership of both Bittern and Flying Scotsman meant that he is still the only ever private owner to own two Gresley Pacific class locomotives.