Anthony Martin CBE, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Education by The University of Buckingham.
Every year the University of Buckingham confers honorary degrees to a number of individuals who have all made major contributions in their particular field.
Tony Martin set up the Anthony V. Martin Charitable Foundation in 2001 with his own funds, to improve animal welfare and reduce suffering in the UK and around the world. This work continues today with Mr Martin serving as Chair and a Board of Trustees distributing funds to charities each year.
Last Saturday , Tony attended the University’s Faculty of Education graduation ceremony at Buckingham Parish Church to receive his award from the Chancellor, Dame Mary Archer DBE.
Mr Martin gave a short address thanking the University:
“I would like to thank the University for awarding me this great honour. It was an entirely unexpected but delightful surprise. Even though I did not attend university after school, I have always firmly believed that positive change can only be achieved through education. My career in finance and then recruitment meant I lived in California for over twenty years and when I returned to live in the UK I continued to travel internationally for business. It was during those travels that I decided to support charities working to help people and animals but the idea was born much earlier when I moved, as a small child, during the Second World War to live on a farm in Essex and witnessed first-hand the destruction and horror of the bombs killing people and animals around me. The fragility of life during that time never left me and was the start of a lifelong wish to contribute positively to the world”.
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