Tom Bloxham

British businessman

Thomas Paul Richard Bloxham CBE (born 20 December 1963) is a British property developer, founder of award winning urban renewal property development company Urban Splash and the modern housebuilder House by Urban Splash - companies which have won 450 awards to date for architecture, design and business success.²

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Born Dec 20, 1963.¹

About

In 1999 Bloxham was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours for Services to Architecture and Urban Regeneration. Tom was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to culture in the 2025 King's birthday honours. The CBE was recognition of his role as Chair of Manchester International and Factory International.

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Companies

Urban SplashFounder¹¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedAlliance Manchester Business School³
Date not recordedVictoria University of Manchester³
Date not recordedTiffin School³

Bloxham was born in Hampshire and went to Tiffin School leaving in 1983 to go to Manchester to study Politics & Modern History at the Victoria University of Manchester where he received a 2:2 degree. Before university he sold fire extinguishers to businesses and he increased sales by setting his briefcase on fire and then extinguishing it. At University he started a poster business selling posters at student unions across the north of England. After university he opened a music and film poster shop in Afflecks Palace.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.⁶

2008 to 2015Chancellor of the University of Manchester⁵
Date not recordedFounded Urban Splash⁴

Personal life

BornDec 20, 1963, Fleet⁷
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom⁸
Children2⁹

Awards

Date not recordedMember of the Order of the British Empire¹⁰

Sources

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