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Description: Sir David Roberts McMurtry, CBE FRS FREng FIMechE. Irish-British billionaire businessman and engineer. Co-founder and executive chairman of Renishaw plc. His 2012 appearance in a Institute of Physics video together with Renishaw business partner, Non-executive vice-chairman John Deer. Original video title and description: A great team in engineering: Sir David McMurtry and John Deer Sir David McMurty and John Deer from Renishaw plc, winners of the 2012 Swan Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics for their role in founding Renishaw. From humble beginnings as mechanical apprentices, Sir David and John met in the library at Rolls-Royce in Bristol. Together they founded Renishaw, and have turned the Gloucestershire-based company into one of the world's foremost manufacturers of precision measurement equipment.

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