Sir Charles Clore (1904-1979) was a British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist. 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Clore owned the British Shoe Corporation and Selfridges department store, as well as investing heavily in property. His philanthropic trust, the Clore Foundation, is a major donor to arts and Jewish community projects in Britain and abroad. The Clore Gallery at Tate Britain in London, which houses the world's largest collection of the works of JMW Turner, was built in 1980-87 with £6 million from Clore and his daughter and £1.8 million from the British government. [1] Selfridges in Birmingham Selfridges is a chain of department stores in the United Kingdom. ... Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ...

Clore's child, Dame Vivien Louise Duffield, is a socialite and philanthropist. He also had a son, Alan Evelyn. Clore Shipping Company had two oil tankers the "Vivien Louise" and the "Alan Evelyn".

Clore was mentioned satirically in the song Sounding Brass by Flanders and Swann. Flanders and Swann were British actor and singer Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and composer and linguist Donald Swann (1923–1994) who joined forces to write and perform comic songs in the two-man revues At The Drop Of A Hat and At The Drop Of Another Hat. ...