Professional
Mr Emile Edouard Moreau CBE (1871-1872)
International businessman and major benefactor to the College and SOF. He came to know Rudyard Kipling and, in 1889, became his first publisher. His contribution to the war effort in WW1 was recognised by the award of a CBE in 1919. While a governor of the College he gave £4,000 (the equivalent of about £200,000 today) to help with building improvements and in his will left bequests to both the College and the Society totalling the equivalent of well over £500,000 in today’s terms.
