Started his career as an oil broker in LiverpooL. In 1898 he formed his own firm, C.C. Wakefield & Co.
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Knighted for his services to the City of London (1908); Lord Mayor of London (1915); Hon. Colonel 26 Royal Fusiliers. Visted the Western Front in 1916.
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Gave liberally to charities, hospitals, orphanages, universities, schools, churches and museums.
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Spnet a lot of time in Hythe; town's greatest benefactor. Baron Wakefield of Hythe (1930); Viscount Wakefield of Hythe (1934)
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Died in 1941
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Purchased Talbot House on 20.12.1929, donated it to the Talbot House Association on 27.10.1930, and officially reopened it on 05.04.1931.
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President of Toc H (1931)
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Set up a Trust in 1932 to which he donated £10,000 for the upkeep and day-to-day running of TH.
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1931-1933 - bought 18 plots of land that make up the Pool of Peace (Spanbroekmolen). On 01.04.1933 he sold the crater to the Talbot House Association for a symbolic franc.
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Louagie, J., Talbot House in the interwar period - The Pilgrim's Way
