Well-known businessman Pete Holland has died in hospital with his wife by his side, after a four-year battle against cancer.
Mr Holland, who was 57, died at Hammersmith Hospital from an incurable and rare form of bone marrow cancer.
Since 1996 he raised nearly £100,000 for patients with blood and bone marrow cancers at Princess Margaret Hospital, and for research work at Hammersmith.
His wife Jeannette paid tribute to her husband, who died on Thursday, a day before his 58th birthday.
She said: "He lived with his illness for four years and stayed so strong and positive. He never complained, but concentrated on living."
Mr Holland set up the scrapyard business Holland Handling at Braydon, near Brinkworth, in 1983.
In 1996 he found out he had a bone marrow cancer called Myeloma, for which is there is no known cure.
Mr Holland had four children and three grandchildren. The funeral details have yet to be confirmed.
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