National & International: A Rapid Rise From Teaboy to Tycoon

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Sir Freddie was born Frederick Alfred Laker on August 6 1922. His father was a former Naval rating who deserted the young boy and his mother when Freddie was very young.

The young Laker went to Simon Langton School, Canterbury, where he once told a schoolmaster that he wanted to be a millionaire. Their expectations seemed to be fulfilled when he took his first job at Short brothers, Rochester, Kent, as a floor sweeper at their aircraft factory. But his rise from teaboy to tycoon was rapid. Laker Airways was born in April 1966 as a charter airline carrying passengers for the package holiday industry.

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