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WALERY CHOROSZEWSKI
Wilnianin z dziada/pradziada, urodzony w Wilnie 20/9/1922r., zmarł w Londynie 16/2/2010r.
W czasie wojny ochotnik marynarz w Polskiej Marynarce Wojennej na O.R.P. "Piorun". Odznaczony Krzyżem Walecznych i Medalem Morskim z okuciem.
Po wojnie aktywny do końca w pracy społecznej i niepodległoścowej za co został
odznaczony orderem Komandoria Polonia Restituta z gwiazdą.
Długoletni wice prezes Niezależnej Grupy Społecznej, członek kolejnych Rad Narodowych,
Sekretarz Egzekutywy Zjednoczenia Narodowego,
minister d/s emigracji w gabinecie K. Sabbata i minister informacji w gabinecie E. Szczepanika,
w ostatnim rządzie II RP. Wieloletni Prezes Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Polskiego Uniwersytetu w Wilnie.
Wieloletni dyrektor Finansowy; The London School of Foreign Trade w City londyńskiej.
Założyciel i dyrektor firmy Odra Shipping Agency Limited przejął również firmę Neptune Shipping Agency Limited.
Walery Eugeniusz Choroszewski FIFF (grad)
Born in Wilno (Poland) in 1922.
Educated in Poland and England
Saw wartime service
with the
Polish Navy on the destroyer (O.R.P.) Piorun.
After the war he settled in England and worked from 1951 to
1959 for a
Shipping and Forwarding Agency in the City
of London.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Freight Forwarders, and was
a
Director, and later, a Governor of the London School of Foreign
Trade.
In 1959 started own business under the name of Odra Shipping
Agency in
Bow Lane, City of London, incorporated as a private limited
company.
In 1975 he took over Neptune
Shipping
Agency Ltd., incorporated in 1953 and put it under management
of his
son Ryszard (Richard) Choroszewski. Both companies operated
independently
from the same address until 1990, when they were amalgamated into
Neptune
Shipping Agency Ltd., put under Richard's management, and moved to
Kelly Bray in Cornwall.
Although
routine day to day management of the business rests with Richard since
the move in 1990, Mr. Choroszewski senior continued for several years
in an active role in the Company's affairs. With the passing of time,
however, complete control of the business has passed into Richard's
hands.
Mr. Choroszewski, since 1960'ies has taken active interest in
Polish politics directed towards freeing Poland of Soviet/ Russian
domination and served in three
Polish Governments in Exile
. In
the last one, before handing over Polish President's insignia to newly
elected President Lech Wałęsa in 1990, he was the Minister of
Information in the Polish Government in Exile in London. Lately he has
taken up the cause of the Polish population living in Lithuania after
the Second World War as a result of Ribbentrop-Mołotov, Yalta and
Potsdam agreements. The aim of this activity being introduction
into Lithuania of full minority rights for minorities, among them
Poles, living in Lithuania as a result of those international
agreements.
3 May 2009 received from the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski
Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland reborn) with Star
Odznaczenie orderem Polonia Restituta.
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