family's brewing business commitments (Mann, Crossman & Paulin). Mann was chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) from 1978 to 1983. He was therefore chairman during the controversy over the rebel tour which Geoff Boycott and Graham Gooch led to South Africa in 1982. Later life Mann was a main board director and retained his position on the new company board when his family brewery merged with Watney Combe & Reid in 1958. He was non-executive Deputy Chairman of the Extel Group from 1980 to 1986. Mann died on 8 August 2001 in Stockcross, Berkshire, England. Personal life In 1949, Mann married Margaret Hildegarde Marshall Clark. Together they had four children: three sons and one daughter. His wife predeceased him, dying in 1995. Mann's son, Simon, was sentenced for thirty-four years in Equatorial Guinea in 2008, on charges related to an attempted coup in 2004, but was pardoned on 2 November 2009. References External links 1917 births 2001 deaths England Test cricket captains Middlesex cricket captains Cambridge University cricketers Free Foresters cricketers Chairmen of Middlesex County Cricket Club Presidents of Middlesex County Cricket Club Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Scots Guards officers British Army personnel of World War II Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Recipients of the Military Cross Masters of the Worshipful Company of Brewers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Royal Welch Fusiliers officers English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Military personnel from Surrey North v South cricketers 20th-century English businesspeople Marylebone Cricket Club South African Touring Team cricketers England Test cricketers