Biography
David Cargill (1936-2023), Norfolk born and educated, took over as chair of the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in 1971 and enabled it to make ambitious purchases with national match-funding from the V&A Purchase Fund. In 1975, he created and chaired the Eastern Arts Association with the aim of bringing cultural experience to a wider cross-section of the public in East Anglia.
In 1982, he set up Radio Broadland, with writer Malcolm Bradbury and Viscount Edward Coke, as directors. He was a Contemporary Art Society Committee Member (1982-7); on the Arts Council for England board, championing the importance of regional arts investment; was a director and board member of Angela Flowers Gallery for nearly 40 years; a founder investor and shareholder of The Groucho Club; chair of Wingfield Arts Centre, and at the age of 65 he became the oldest member of Soho House. He and his wife Shirley had an art collection with works by artists and sculptors including Duncan Grant, David Hockney, Michael Andrews, William Pye and Tom Philips and in his later years he took up painting and sculpture himself.