Keith Schellenberg
British businessman
Clifford Keith Wain Schellenberg (13 March 1929 – 28 October 2019) was a British businessman and Winter Olympian. He was known for his legal disputes related to his ownership of the Scottish island of Eigg. He also stood in several general elections as a Liberal Party candidate.
Personal life and business career
Clifford Keith Wain Schellenberg was the son of Clifford Robertshaw Schellenberg (1898–1971), of Woodlands, The Grove, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire. His distant forebears, who hailed from Wurttemberg in Germany, settled in Britain in the 1860s. His grandfather, Alan Schellenberg, had founded Cleveland Products in Middlesbrough, which produced glue and ossein gelatin – used, among other things, in the development of reconnaissance photography during World War II, thus enhancing the family's prosperity. Aside from the Middlesbrough glue factory, Schellenberg's own business interests lay in shipbuilding, livestock feed and agricultural chemicals. From the 1970s until his death he was the owner of Cleveland and Highland Holdings Ltd., a cattle company with dealings in both northern Scotland and Teesside. He was also the proprietor of a Middlesbrough-based Ford dealership network after purchasing the parent company, Nesham's, in 1961.
Schellenberg attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
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