A Bath businessman who set up a charitable trust which has donated £26 million has died at the age of 89.
Engineering firm founder Len Medlock set up The Medlock Trust, which has supported charities, schools and groups across the Bath area, in 1986.
The charity, which he ran with his son David recently gave more than £1 million to the Forever Friends Cancer Care Campaign.
Mr Medlock was born in Lincolnshire, and served in the navy at the end of the Second World War.
He met his wife Brenda while in the navy and they married in April 1949, having their children Thea in 1950 and David in 1955. His wife died in 2010.
Mr Medlock worked at engineering firm Westinghouse in Chippenham, before leaving to join contract design company Guidar, where he met his future business partner Geoff Hebron.
They then set up Hebron and Medlock, which served Government departments and the aerospace industry.
The company now trades as Sitec, with more than 900 staff, and an HQ in Bristol.
The trust's grants have been mainly concentrated in the Boston, Bath and Bristol areas.
Mr Medlock was chairman of the Bristol Engineering Manufacturers' Association and of the Federation of Engineering Design Consultants.
Son David said: "Despite his tremendous success in business he was a quiet, unassuming and modest man - easily underestimated but always willing to help his fellow man without need for attention.
"He was always happiest in the background, helping out on the cash desk at school fetes and playing with his nieces and nephews at family gatherings.
"His wife, children and grandchildren together with his wider family were his life."
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