Lifetime Achievement

Founded Children With Cancer UK with late wife Marion, raising £230million in memory of their two children.

THE O’Gormans were enjoying a holiday in Florida when siblings Paul and Jean started worrying about their health.

Back in England, Paul, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia and Jean, 29, with breast cancer. The diagnoses came just 24 hours apart.

Paul sadly died in February 1987, just nine weeks after diagnosis. Before he passed away, he asked his parents to promise to help other children with leukaemia.

The grieving couple were determined to fulfil Paul’s final wishes, and started raising funds for the Leukaemia Research Fund.

Within nine months, they had organised a charity ball, and though Jean’s