Bill Gammell
 Bill Gammell  (rugby player, businessman) | |
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| Parents | Jimmy Gammell |
A Bush fanily connection and connection to Tony Blair. | |
'Sir Bill Gammell FRSE funded childhood friend George W. Bush, and was also a schoolfriend of Tony Blair. He features in Russ Baker's Family Of Secrets.
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Background
Bill Gammel is son of Jimmy Gammel (a former director of the Bank of Scotland). He became friends with George Bush Jr after George H. W. Bush. He was a preparatory schoolfriend of Tony Blair, where the two were basketball teammates.[1]
Career
Bill Gammel was a rugby player before going into the oil business. He repeatedly visited Midland, Texas. In 1980 set up Cairn Energy management and provided financial assistance to George Bush Jr.[1]
Connections
George W. Bush brought up the topic of his appreciation of the "fabulous family" of the Gammels in a 2005 interview.[1]
“Either Gammel was an extremely visionary businessman, or he had great connections, or both. One way or the other, along with Enron and Cheney's Haliburton, Gammel's Cairn was soon making a fortune off oil in India, a country not noted for its prospects in trhat regard.”
Russ Baker [2]
