BARON LEVER OF MANCHESTER Baron Harold LEVER

Background

LEVER, BARON LEVER OF MANCHESTER Baron Harold was born on January 15, 1914 in Manchester. Parents: the late Bernard Lever and Bertha Lever.

Education

Manchester Grammar School. Manchester University.

Career

Member of Parliament, Manchester Exchange, 1945-1950, Manchester Cheetham, 1950-1974, Manchester, Central, 1974-1979. Jt. Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, 1967. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1967-1969.

Paymaster General, 1969-1970. Member. Shadow Cabinet, 1970-1974. Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, 1970-1973.

Councillor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1974-1979. Barrister, Middle Temple, 1935. Director. The Guardian and Manchester Evening News, since 1979.

Member. International Adv. Board, Creditanstalt-Bankverein, since 1982. Chairman, SDS Bank Ltd., since 1984.

Chairman. Stormgard, 1985-1987. Chairman, 1984-1986, President, since 1986, Authority Investments PLC.

Works

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• book

  • Debt and Danger: The World Financial Crisis

    (Book by LEVER, Harold and Christopher Huhne)

  • Debt and Danger: World Financial Crisis (A Penguin special)

    (TO EXPLAIN THE ORIGINS OF THE DEBT CRISIS)

  • DEBT AND DANGER: WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS (A PENGUIN SPECIAL) by 'HAROLD LEVER CHRISTOPHER HUHNE' (1985-01-01) Paperback

• Other Work

  • Debt and Danger, 1985.

Membership

Treasurer. Socialist International, 1971-1973. Governor, London School of Economics, since 1971. E-SU, since 1973; clubs: Trustee, Royal Opera House, 1974-1982.

Member of ct., Manchester University, since 1975. Honorary Fellow, and Chairman of Trustees, Royal Academy, 19811987.

Connections

Spouse Diane Lever, 1962. Children: four d.