My grandfather Abu Zafar, who has died aged 88, was an engineer, inventor and co-founder, with his wife, Hisako, of the first Asian-owned printing press in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His service to business was recognised with a British Empire Medal in 2014; Hisako received the same award the following year.
They arrived in West Yorkshire in 1971 from what was then East Pakistan, where Zafar, as he was known to all, had managed the largest muslin mill in the Indian subcontinent; he was visiting Europe on a one-year UN fellowship with his wife and children when the Bangladesh war of liberation broke out and the family was stranded in the UK. Zafar began an engineering PhD at Bradford University and found work as a maths teacher.
