The Lord Sainsbury of Turville

Founder, Gatsby Charitable Foundation

David Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, founded the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1967, in keeping with his family tradition of philanthropy. He became finance director at Sainsbury’s in 1973, progressing later to chairman, and in 1993 donated £200 million of Sainsbury’s shares to the foundation’s assets. By 2009 Sainsbury became the first Briton to donate more than £1 billion to charity. He has donated a total of £127 million of the Gatsby Foundation’s money to the University of Cambridge in the last decade, £82 million of which has funded Cambridge’s 2011 Sainsbury Laboratory. He is currently chancellor of the University of Cambridge and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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