David Chambers worked his way up from an apprenticeship at Pressed Steel in Cowley to become manufacturing director at a BMW plant. Having retired at 55, he now lives in Churchill, near Chipping Norton, and has written a book about his great uncle. Tim China (£6.99) is about Timothy Richard, a missionary in 19th-century China who founded the first western-style university at Shansi in China and the first international famine relief organisation.
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