Sir Paul Judge Dilbagh Athwal · 2019-08-27 · Dilbagh Singh Athwal was born in Lyallpur, India...
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The Daily Telegraph Tuesday 23 May 2017 29 *** Entrepreneur who founded Cambridge’s business school and was director general of the Tory party Sir Paul Judge Grandson of Josef Stalin who dedicated himself to defending his notorious forebear’s reputation Yevgeny Dzhugashvili D ILBAGH ATHWAL, who has died aged 88, was a plant geneticist dubbed “the father of the wheat revolution” for his work creating new varieties of wheat and millet that allowed millions of farmers in India to enjoy larger yields with a greater nutritional value. In the early 1960s India was feared to be on the brink of famine. A succession of poor harvests, combined with a rapid increase in the population, had forced the authorities to start importing basic foods from overseas at high cost. Help came in the form of Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist whose efforts to introduce new wheat varieties in Mexico had seen crop yields double on test plots. Subsequently 18,000 tons of “semidwarf ” wheat seed was delivered to India. Athwal, heading up research in Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, set to work selecting the breeding lines that would deliver the greatest benefit and distributing them among the region’s wheat breeders. One significant problem was that the varieties which grew most successfully in Punjab soil were red, which made them unattractive to farmers and consumers. Athwal therefore modified two wheat varieties – known as Lerma Rojo 64 and PV 18 – to produce amber- coloured grains that could be turned into perfect golden chapatis, while retaining all the desirable qualities of the sister strain. The new variety was called Kalyan 227, after Athwal’s home village, and was released for cultivation in 1967. Its success was such that it became known as Kalyan Sona, or “golden saviour”. At one time there was no room left in granaries, so the Indian government had to compel schools to store excess wheat on their premises. In 1975 Dilbagh Athwal received the Padma Bhushan Award, India’s third-highest civilian honour, for his contributions to biological science. Dilbagh Singh Athwal was born in Lyallpur, India (now in Pakistan), on October 12 1928. During the partition his family moved to Punjab and he attended Punjab University to study agricultural sciences. In 1954 he received a PhD in plant breeding and genetics from the University of Sydney, before returning to India to become head of the department of plant breeding at Punjab Agricultural University. There he made his first significant contribution to commercial farming with his work on pearl millet (bajra), which was an important source of animal fodder in Punjab. Athwal’s new hybrid millet, dubbed HB-1, helped to revolutionise production in India, from a yearly yield of 3.5 million tons in 1965 to 8 million tons in 1970. While in Punjab, Athwal also conducted significant research into the genetics of crop resistance. In particular, he was interested in growing wheat with an inherited immunity to stem rust, a disease that produces reddish-brown pustules and can wipe out whole crops. The later success of Kalyan Sona was due, in large part, to its rust-resistant properties. Athwal went on to join the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, initially as assistant director general. He retired as deputy director general in 1977 and joined the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Agricultural Development Service (later Winrock International), which was devoted to disseminating high-yield agricultural techniques among nations such as Indonesia and Nepal. As programme officer for Asia and the Pacific, Athwal travelled the region extensively, helping to design and implement new farming initiatives. Settling in Toms River, New Jersey, following his retirement, Dilbagh Athwal enjoyed a successful second career in real estate. He married, in 1955, Gurdev Clair. She survives him, as do their two sons. Dilbagh Athwal, born October 12 1928, died May 14 2017 Dilbagh Athwal Scientist whose work on hybrid wheat helped India to feed itself Fears of famine were allayed S IR PAUL JUDGE, who has died aged 68, enjoyed a high-flying career in the food industry, served as director general of the Conservative Party organisation from 1992 to 1995 and donated a substantial chunk of his fortune to his alma mater, Cambridge University, to found its business school, now the Cambridge Judge Business School. Judge’s rise in the business world was meteoric. From Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences, he landed a scholarship to the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating two years later with an MBA. After a summer spent driving from Philadelphia to Mexico and back in a 1967 Mustang, he returned to Britain with a job in Cadbury Schweppes, and by the time he was 28 he had risen to the position of deputy finance director. After 13 years with the company, including a spell running its Kenya operations, in 1986 he negotiated a £97 million management buy-out – the biggest of its kind in its day – of its food businesses, to form Premier Brands, of which he became managing director and subsequently chairman. In 1986 he was one of the “Top 40 under 40” executives chosen by Business Magazine. Judge and his fellow directors risked their homes borrowing money to clinch the deal, but the gamble paid off. By 1989, three years after the buy-out, Premier Brands’ annual profits had risen from £6m to £31m. When the business was sold for £310m the same year, Judge’s initial investment of £90,000 had risen in value to £45m. Judge invested the proceeds in a range of other businesses and established a charitable foundation. He used £8 million to finance the new business school at his old university to improve the calibre of managers in British industry. “We have always had the attitude of the educated amateur in this country when it comes to management,” he explained in an interview. “Our traditional universities have been disinclined to view it as a profession like law or medicine which needs to be Judge in 2009 in front of a promotional poster for his new political movement, the Jury Team, which aimed to promote independent candidates in elections Y EVGENY DZHUGASHVILI, who has died aged 80, was a grandson of Josef Stalin and very much a chip off the old block; Dzhugashvili was the Georgian family name of Stalin, who adopted the more revolutionary-sounding “man of steel” in about 1913. With his moustache, piercing dark eyes and squat 5 ft 4 in frame, Dzhugashvili, a former Soviet Air Force colonel, bore such a chilling physical resemblance to his notorious forebear that a Soviet director once begged him to play his grandfather in a film. The resemblance did not stop there. His home on the edge of Gorky Park in central Moscow was a shrine to Stalin in which interviewers found him ready, according to one, to spit “with little prompting, fury against Jews, revisionists and the West”. As glasnost began to expose the horrors of Stalin’s rule, Dzhugashvili’s adoration of his grandfather (whom he likened to Jesus Christ) brought him to the attention of millions of Russians through his diatribes in the Soviet press. He dedicated himself to keeping what he saw as his grandfather’s achievements alive, brushing aside evidence of Stalin’s massacres of millions of people as “a legend invented by dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn”, assorted “cosmopolites” and Zionists. “A hundred million people were murdered by propaganda,” he claimed. As for the so-called “reign of terror” under his grandfather’s rule, he blamed Leon Trotsky (who was exiled in 1929 and later killed by one of Stalin’s agents). It was Trotsky who had created the labour camps; Stalin, he admitted, had made use of this “heritage” but his aim to been “to release the innocent people and to punish those who were guilty”. The 1930s, a period during which millions had been exterminated, he regarded as “the most glorious epoch in the history of Russia”. Dzhugashvili’s regard for his grandfather was all the more surprising in that his father Yakov, Stalin’s eldest son by his first marriage to Yekaterina Svanidze, had been rejected by the Soviet dictator as a “mere cobbler”. Famously, when Yakov botched a suicide attempt after a failed romance, Stalin remarked: “He can’t even shoot straight.” After Yakov was captured by the Germans while serving in the Red Army during the war, Stalin (who considered all PoWs traitors to the motherland) sent Yakov’s wife Yulia to the gulag (Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, claimed that her father believed his son deliberately surrendered to the Germans after being encouraged to do so by his wife). When offered his son back in a swap for a German field marshal who had been taken prisoner by the Soviets, he refused, saying: “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.” Yakov is believed to have died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp aged 36 in 1943, but Stalin took little interest in his family, and his grandson, born on January 10 1936, never met him face to face. “I saw my grandfather only once in my life when I took part in a parade on Red Square when I was a cadet at the Suvorov military academy,” he recalled. “The second time, I saw him in his coffin when I was 17.” His status as Stalin’s grandson meant that Dzhugashvili had been admitted to the academy and subsequently to the Zhukovsky air force academy of military engineers without having to pass an entrance exam. There he worked with Sergei Korolev, the rocket builder, and wrote a thesis on “US aviation in the war of aggression in Vietnam”. He went on to become a teacher of military history at Moscow’s Academy of the General Military Board and remained there until 1986 when he was suddenly dismissed because, he claimed, of who his grandfather was, though he found a job as a teacher in the Frunze Military Academy. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dzhugashvili moved to the republic of Georgia. He lost all his savings in the 1998 economic collapse, which left him eking out an impoverished existence in a crumbling block in Tbilisi where he shared a bare four-room apartment with his wife, his two sons, Yakov, a painter who studied in Britain, and Vissarion, a daughter- in-law and grandson Josef, named after his great grandfather and nicknamed “Sosso”, just like Stalin. In 1999 Yevgeny emerged as one of the leaders of a new “Stalinist Bloc for Socialism”, an assortment of extreme communist groups whose principal goal, he explained, was to “get rid of the government through constitutional means … for the moment”. In the run-up to the elections for the Russian State Duma, he spoke at angry rallies of nationalists and communists, many brandishing portraits of his grandfather. The bloc performed dismally in the elections, however. Dzhugashvili then turned his attention to Georgian politics, setting up a new Stalinist Communist party in Georgia and vigorously attacking the Georgian president Edvard Shevardnadze who “together with Yeltsin, Gorbachev and other Zionists [had] destroyed a great country”. Initially he had great hopes for Vladimir Putin who, he predicted, would “tighten the screws like Stalin”, though Putin, too, would disappoint. In 2015, in a wide-ranging diatribe against the Russian leader, he attacked his topless photo stunts as showing that Putin was “leading the country without brains” and accused him of heading a government of “thieves and tricksters”. In his later years Dzhugashvili took on a new role as a serial litigant. In 2001, in a case which harked back to the venerable Tsarist tradition of the “false Dmitri” pretenders to the imperial throne, a court in Tbilisi ordered a fellow member of the Tbilisi-based International Stalin Society to apologise for suggesting that Dzhugashvili was not the grandson of Stalin, but an impostor. In 2009 Dzhugashvili launched a libel suit against Russia’s leading liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, accusing it of lying in an article which stated that Stalin had killed Soviet citizens, claimed Stalin had “evaded moral responsibility” for the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war in 1940, and labelled the Soviet dictator a “bloodthirsty cannibal”. Dzhugashvili demanded $326,000 in compensation for damage to his honour, but a Russian court ruled against him. Undaunted he took the issue to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the Novaya Gazeta article had violated his right to privacy. The court rejected his complaint in 2015. In October last year a Moscow court rejected another application by Dzhugashvili to institute criminal proceedings against the authors of a new history textbook blaming the Katyn massacre on Stalin. “Nowadays it is hard to find common sense in anything being said about Stalin, because a general prescription has been given to our society,” he complained. “It is that Stalin must be blamed for everything. This is the time we are living in, the b------s have won.” Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, born January 10 1936, died December 22 2016 Dzhugashvili: he bore such a physical resemblance to Stalin that a Soviet director once begged him to play his grandfather in a film properly taught and needs proper facilities.” The school, originally called the Judge Institute of Management Studies and situated on the site of the Old Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Trumpington Street, was officially opened by the Queen in 1995, and Judge chaired its advisory board for 12 years. It rose rapidly in the rankings and the Cambridge MBA programme is now ranked among the top in the world by Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Forbes magazine and others. Judge’s foray into the political arena as unpaid director general of the Conservative Party organisation was less happy. Appointed in 1992 by the then party chairman Norman Fowler, to “provide leadership to our professional staff”, he was credited with overseeing a turnaround in party finances, reducing its overdraft from £19 million to only £2 million. But he was said to have made enemies in 1993 when 50 party workers were made redundant as part of a cost-cutting drive. Senior staff complained of being distracted by his lengthy meetings on organisational matters, and there was embarrassment in January 1995 when he lost a libel action against the Guardian over a 1993 article alleging that Conservative Central Office had been guilty of “obstruction” and “old tricks” in failing to respond speedily to accountants’ inquiries about funds donated to the party by the fugitive business tycoon, Asil Nadir. Judge ended up having to pay both sides’ costs – estimated at £300,000 – and was subsequently reported to have been ousted by a subsequent party chairman, Brian Mawhinney, as “part of an effort to improve the party machine”, although he spent a further year as a ministerial adviser to the Cabinet Office on competitiveness, deregulation, privatisation and IT. In 2009, however, he set up the Jury Team, a political movement aimed at promoting independent candidates in United Kingdom domestic and European elections. The only child of a schoolmaster, Paul Rupert Judge was born on April 25 1949 and grew up in the Forest Hill area of south London where he made extra pocket money selling programmes at Blackheath rugby club on Saturday afternoons. From St Dunstan’s College, Catford, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialised in chemistry and would probably have pursued a career as a research chemist had he not read Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, which convinced him that “the business area was a good one to be in.” After selling Premier Brands, Judge served for two years as chairman of Food From Britain, where he was a driving force behind efforts to narrow the food industry trade deficit, before taking the newly created job of director general at Conservative Central Office. Judge, whose interests included travel, photography and steam railways, maintained a substantial portfolio of business interests, including as a director (and chairman from 2005-13) of Schroder Income Growth Fund. At various times he was also a main board director of the Boddington Group, of Grosvenor Development Capital and the WPP Group. He was a member of the advisory board for Barclays Private Bank and chairman of Teachers TV, a free-to-air television channel. He served, variously, as chairman of the Royal Society of Arts; president of the Chartered Management Institute; president of the Association of MBAs and chairman of the Marketing Standards Board. He also sat on the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. An Alderman of the City of London, from 2006 to 2007 he chaired the Lord Mayor’s “City of London – City of Learning” project. He was the Aldermanic Sheriff of the City for 2013-14. Judge was knighted in 1996 for public and political services and in 2013 was appointed a Brother of the Order of St John by the Queen. His first two marriages, to Jane Urquart and Anne Marie Foff, were dissolved, and in 2002 he married Barbara (née Singer), chairman of the Pension Protection Fund from 2010 to 2016. She survives him with his sons, Christopher and Michael, from his marriage to Anne Marie. Sir Paul Judge, born April 25 1949, died May 21 2017 ITAR-TASS PHOTO AGENCY/ALAMY Obituaries GETTY IMAGES/ OLI SCARFF
Transcript of Sir Paul Judge Dilbagh Athwal · 2019-08-27 · Dilbagh Singh Athwal was born in Lyallpur, India...
The Daily Telegraph Tuesday 23 May 2017 29***
Entrepreneur who founded Cambridge’s business school and was director general of the Tory party
Sir Paul Judge
Grandson of Josef Stalin who dedicated himself to defending his notorious forebear’s reputation
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili
D ILBAGH ATHWAL, who has died aged 88, was a plant geneticist
dubbed “the father of the wheat revolution” for his work creating new varieties of wheat and millet that allowed millions of farmers in India to enjoy larger yields with a greater nutritional value.
In the early 1960s India was feared to be on the brink of famine. A succession of poor harvests, combined with a rapid increase in the population, had forced the authorities to start importing basic foods from overseas at high cost.
Help came in the form of Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist whose efforts to introduce new wheat varieties in Mexico had seen crop yields double on test plots. Subsequently 18,000 tons of “semidwarf ” wheat seed was delivered to India. Athwal, heading up research in Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, set to work selecting the breeding lines that would deliver the greatest benefit and distributing them among the region’s wheat breeders.
One significant problem was that the varieties which grew most successfully in Punjab soil were red, which made them unattractive to farmers and consumers. Athwal therefore modified two wheat varieties – known as Lerma Rojo 64 and PV 18 – to produce amber-coloured grains that could be turned into perfect golden chapatis, while retaining all the desirable qualities of the sister strain.
The new variety was called Kalyan 227, after Athwal’s home village, and was released for cultivation in 1967. Its success was such that it became known as Kalyan Sona, or “golden saviour”. At one time there was no room left in granaries, so the Indian government had to compel schools to store excess wheat on their premises. In 1975 Dilbagh Athwal received the Padma Bhushan Award, India’s third-highest civilian honour, for his contributions to biological science.
Dilbagh Singh Athwal was born in Lyallpur, India (now in Pakistan), on October 12 1928. During the partition his family moved to Punjab and he attended Punjab University to study agricultural sciences. In 1954 he received a PhD in plant breeding and genetics from the University of
Sydney, before returning to India to become head of the department of plant breeding at Punjab Agricultural University.
There he made his first significant contribution to commercial farming with his work on pearl millet (bajra), which was an important source of animal fodder in Punjab. Athwal’s new hybrid millet, dubbed HB-1, helped to revolutionise production in India, from a yearly yield of 3.5 million tons in 1965 to 8 million tons in 1970.
While in Punjab, Athwal also conducted significant research into the genetics of crop resistance. In particular, he was interested in growing wheat with an inherited immunity to stem rust, a disease that produces reddish-brown pustules and can wipe out whole crops. The later success of Kalyan Sona was due, in large part, to its rust-resistant properties.
Athwal went on to join the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, initially as assistant director general. He retired as deputy director general in 1977 and joined the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Agricultural Development Service (later Winrock International), which was devoted to disseminating high-yield agricultural techniques among nations such as Indonesia and Nepal. As programme officer for Asia and the Pacific, Athwal travelled the region extensively, helping to design and implement new farming initiatives.
Settling in Toms River, New Jersey, following his retirement, Dilbagh Athwal enjoyed a successful second career in real estate.
He married, in 1955, Gurdev Clair. She survives him, as do their two sons.
Dilbagh Athwal, born October 12 1928, died May 14 2017
Dilbagh AthwalScientist whose work on hybrid wheat helped India to feed itself
Fears of famine were allayed
S IR PAUL JUDGE, who has died aged 68, enjoyed a high-flying career in the food industry, served as director general of the Conservative Party
organisation from 1992 to 1995 and donated a substantial chunk of his fortune to his alma mater, Cambridge University, to found its business school, now the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Judge’s rise in the business world was meteoric. From Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences, he landed a scholarship to the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating two years later with an MBA. After a summer spent driving from Philadelphia to Mexico and back in a 1967 Mustang, he returned to Britain with a job in Cadbury Schweppes, and by the time he was 28 he had risen to the position of deputy finance director.
After 13 years with the company, including a spell running its Kenya operations, in 1986 he negotiated a £97 million management buy-out – the biggest of its kind in its day – of its food businesses, to form Premier Brands, of which he became managing director and subsequently chairman. In 1986 he was one of the “Top 40 under 40” executives chosen by Business Magazine.
Judge and his fellow directors risked their homes borrowing money to clinch the deal, but the gamble paid off. By 1989, three years after the buy-out, Premier Brands’ annual profits had risen from £6m to £31m. When the business was sold for £310m the same year, Judge’s initial investment of £90,000 had risen in value to £45m.
Judge invested the proceeds in a range of other businesses and established a charitable foundation. He used £8 million to finance the new business school at his old university to improve the calibre of managers in British industry.
“We have always had the attitude of the educated amateur in this country when it comes to management,” he explained in an interview. “Our traditional universities have been disinclined to view it as a profession like law or medicine which needs to be
Judge in 2009 in front of a promotional poster for his new political movement, the Jury Team, which aimed to promote independent candidates in elections
Y EVGENY DZHUGASHVILI, who has died aged 80, was a grandson of Josef Stalin and very much a chip off the old
block; Dzhugashvili was the Georgian family name of Stalin, who adopted the more revolutionary-sounding “man of steel” in about 1913.
With his moustache, piercing dark eyes and squat 5 ft 4 in frame, Dzhugashvili, a former Soviet Air Force colonel, bore such a chilling physical resemblance to his notorious forebear that a Soviet director once begged him to play his grandfather in a film. The resemblance did not stop there. His home on the edge of Gorky Park in central Moscow was a shrine to Stalin in which interviewers found him ready, according to one, to spit “with little prompting, fury against Jews, revisionists and the West”.
As glasnost began to expose the horrors of Stalin’s rule, Dzhugashvili’s adoration of his grandfather (whom he likened to Jesus Christ) brought him to the attention of millions of Russians through his diatribes in the Soviet press. He dedicated himself to keeping what he saw as his grandfather’s achievements alive, brushing aside evidence of Stalin’s massacres of millions of people as “a legend invented by dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn”, assorted “cosmopolites” and Zionists. “A hundred million people were murdered by propaganda,” he claimed.
As for the so-called “reign of terror” under his grandfather’s rule, he blamed Leon Trotsky (who was exiled in 1929 and later killed by one of Stalin’s agents). It was Trotsky who had created the labour camps; Stalin, he admitted, had made use of this “heritage” but his aim to been “to release the innocent people and to punish those who were guilty”. The 1930s, a period during which millions had been exterminated, he regarded as “the most glorious epoch in the history of Russia”.
Dzhugashvili’s regard for his grandfather was all the more surprising in that his father Yakov, Stalin’s eldest son by his first marriage to Yekaterina Svanidze, had been rejected by the Soviet dictator as a “mere cobbler”. Famously, when Yakov botched a suicide attempt after a failed romance, Stalin remarked: “He can’t even shoot straight.”
After Yakov was captured by the Germans while serving in the Red Army during the war, Stalin (who considered all PoWs traitors to the motherland) sent Yakov’s wife Yulia to the gulag (Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, claimed that her father believed his son deliberately surrendered to the Germans after being encouraged to do so by his wife). When offered his son back in a swap for a German field marshal who had been taken prisoner by the Soviets, he refused, saying: “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
Yakov is believed to have died in
Sachsenhausen concentration camp aged 36 in 1943, but Stalin took little interest in his family, and his grandson, born on January 10 1936, never met him face to face. “I saw my grandfather only once in my life when I took part in a parade on Red Square when I was a cadet at the Suvorov military academy,” he recalled. “The second time, I saw him in his coffin when I was 17.”
His status as Stalin’s grandson meant that Dzhugashvili had been admitted to the academy and subsequently to the Zhukovsky air force academy of military engineers without having to pass an entrance exam. There he worked with Sergei Korolev, the rocket builder, and wrote a thesis on “US aviation in the war of aggression in Vietnam”.
He went on to become a teacher of military history at Moscow’s Academy of the General Military Board and remained there until 1986 when he was suddenly dismissed because, he claimed, of who his grandfather was, though he found a job as a teacher in the Frunze Military Academy.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dzhugashvili moved to the republic of Georgia. He lost all his savings in the 1998 economic collapse, which left him eking out an impoverished existence in a crumbling block in Tbilisi where he shared a bare four-room apartment with his wife, his two sons, Yakov, a painter who studied in Britain, and Vissarion, a daughter-in-law and grandson Josef, named
after his great grandfather and nicknamed “Sosso”, just like Stalin.
In 1999 Yevgeny emerged as one of the leaders of a new “Stalinist Bloc for Socialism”, an assortment of extreme communist groups whose principal goal, he explained, was to “get rid of the government through constitutional means … for the moment”. In the run-up to the elections for the Russian State Duma, he spoke at angry rallies of nationalists and communists, many brandishing portraits of his grandfather. The bloc performed dismally in the elections, however.
Dzhugashvili then turned his attention to Georgian politics, setting up a new Stalinist Communist party in Georgia and vigorously attacking the Georgian president Edvard Shevardnadze who “together with Yeltsin, Gorbachev and other Zionists [had] destroyed a great country”. Initially he had great hopes for Vladimir Putin who, he predicted, would “tighten the screws like Stalin”, though Putin, too, would disappoint. In 2015, in a wide-ranging diatribe against the Russian leader, he attacked his topless photo stunts as showing that Putin was “leading the country without brains” and accused him of heading a government of “thieves and tricksters”.
In his later years Dzhugashvili took on a new role as a serial litigant. In 2001, in a case which harked back to the venerable Tsarist tradition of the “false Dmitri” pretenders to the imperial throne, a court in Tbilisi ordered a fellow member of the
Tbilisi-based International Stalin Society to apologise for suggesting that Dzhugashvili was not the grandson of Stalin, but an impostor.
In 2009 Dzhugashvili launched a libel suit against Russia’s leading liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, accusing it of lying in an article which stated that Stalin had killed Soviet citizens, claimed Stalin had “evaded moral responsibility” for the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war in 1940, and labelled the Soviet dictator a “bloodthirsty cannibal”.
Dzhugashvili demanded $326,000 in compensation for damage to his honour, but a Russian court ruled against him. Undaunted he took the issue to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the Novaya Gazeta article had violated his right to privacy. The court rejected his complaint in 2015.
In October last year a Moscow court rejected another application by Dzhugashvili to institute criminal proceedings against the authors of a new history textbook blaming the Katyn massacre on Stalin. “Nowadays it is hard to find common sense in anything being said about Stalin, because a general prescription has been given to our society,” he complained. “It is that Stalin must be blamed for everything. This is the time we are living in, the b------s have won.”
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, born January 10 1936, died December 22 2016
Dzhugashvili: he bore such a physical resemblance to Stalin that a Soviet director once begged him to play his grandfather in a film
properly taught and needs proper facilities.”
The school, originally called the Judge Institute of Management Studies and situated on the site of the Old Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Trumpington Street, was officially opened by the Queen in 1995, and Judge chaired its advisory board for 12 years. It rose rapidly in the rankings and the Cambridge MBA programme is now ranked among the top in the world by Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Forbes magazine and others.
Judge’s foray into the political arena as unpaid director general of the Conservative Party organisation was less happy. Appointed in 1992 by the then party chairman Norman Fowler, to “provide leadership to our professional staff ”, he was credited with overseeing a turnaround in party finances, reducing its overdraft from £19 million to only £2 million.
But he was said to have made enemies in 1993 when 50 party workers were made redundant as part of a cost-cutting drive. Senior staff complained of being distracted by his lengthy meetings on organisational matters, and there was embarrassment
in January 1995 when he lost a libel action against the Guardian over a 1993 article alleging that Conservative Central Office had been guilty of “obstruction” and “old tricks” in failing to respond speedily to accountants’ inquiries about funds donated to the party by the fugitive business tycoon, Asil Nadir.
Judge ended up having to pay both sides’ costs – estimated at £300,000 – and was subsequently reported to have been ousted by a subsequent party chairman, Brian Mawhinney, as “part of an effort to improve the party machine”, although he spent a further year as a ministerial adviser to the Cabinet Office on competitiveness, deregulation, privatisation and IT. In 2009, however, he set up the Jury Team, a political movement aimed at promoting independent candidates in United Kingdom domestic and European elections.
The only child of a schoolmaster, Paul Rupert Judge was born on April 25 1949 and grew up in the Forest Hill area of south London where he made extra pocket money selling programmes at Blackheath rugby club on Saturday afternoons.
From St Dunstan’s College, Catford, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialised in chemistry and would probably have pursued a career as a research chemist had he not read Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, which convinced him that “the business area was a good one to be in.”
After selling Premier Brands, Judge served for two years as chairman of Food From Britain, where he was a driving force behind efforts to narrow the food industry trade deficit, before taking the newly created job of director general at Conservative Central Office.
Judge, whose interests included travel, photography and steam railways, maintained a substantial portfolio of business interests, including as a director (and chairman from 2005-13) of Schroder Income Growth Fund. At various times he was also a main board director of the Boddington Group, of Grosvenor Development Capital and the WPP Group. He was a member of the advisory board for Barclays Private Bank and chairman of Teachers TV, a free-to-air television channel.
He served, variously, as chairman of the Royal Society of Arts; president of the Chartered Management Institute; president of the Association of MBAs and chairman of the Marketing Standards Board. He also sat on the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
An Alderman of the City of London, from 2006 to 2007 he chaired the Lord Mayor’s “City of London – City of Learning” project. He was the Aldermanic Sheriff of the City for 2013-14.
Judge was knighted in 1996 for public and political services and in 2013 was appointed a Brother of the Order of St John by the Queen.
His first two marriages, to Jane Urquart and Anne Marie Foff, were dissolved, and in 2002 he married Barbara (née Singer), chairman of the Pension Protection Fund from 2010 to 2016. She survives him with his sons, Christopher and Michael, from his marriage to Anne Marie.
Sir Paul Judge, born April 25 1949, died May 21 2017
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