William Cockcroft
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Deputy Lieutenant
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of Maidstone
Maidstone
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, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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is Chief Scout Commissioner
Scout Commissioner
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of England
The Scout Association
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and Director of the 21st World Scout Jamboree
21st World Scout Jamboree
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Cockcroft graduated from The Judd School
The Judd School
The Judd School is a state secondary school in Tonbridge, Kent, southeast England. It was established in 1888 at Stafford House on East Street in Tonbridge, where it remained for eight years before moving to its present location on Brook Street, in the south of the town...
in 1965, and the University of South Bank in 1970, majoring in Quantity Surveying.
He is Senior Partner of Sawyer Fisher Chartered Quantity Surveyors, which he joined in June 1965.
In 2008, Cockcroft was awarded the Bronze Wolf
Bronze Wolf
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, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
World Organization of the Scout Movement
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, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting
Scouting
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, at the 38th World Scout Conference.