 Alan Pegler

Alan Francis Pegler OBE, FRSA (16 April 1920 – 18 March 2012) was a British businessman, entrepreneur, railway preservationist and actor.Born in London on 16 April 1920, he was the son of Francis Egerton Pegler, the then Managing Director of the family-owned Northern Rubber Company based in Retford, and his wife Enid, herself the daughter of amateur golfer Frederick Schomberg Ireland, who was written about by Bernard Darwin in his book "Green Memories".