Billionaire Renishaw co-founder Sir David McMurtry dies Business The billionaire co-founder of engineering giant Renishaw has died at the age of 84, it has been announced. Sir David McMurtry founded the Wotton-under-Edge-based company with his former colleague John Deer in 1973 and took it public ten years later. Sir David was awarded a CBE in 1994 and was knighted in 2001. He stepped [...]