Background
TROUGHTON, Charles Hugh Willis was born on August 27, 1916 in Chalfont Saint Giles, Buckinghamshire. Son of late Charles Vivian and Constance Scylla Troughton.
administrator and business executive
TROUGHTON, Charles Hugh Willis was born on August 27, 1916 in Chalfont Saint Giles, Buckinghamshire. Son of late Charles Vivian and Constance Scylla Troughton.
Haileybury College, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Joined Territorial Army 1938, Oxford and Buckinghamshire. Light Infantry 1939, prisoner of war 1940-1945. Called to the Bar 1945.
Director West. H. Smith and Son (Holdings) Limited.
1949-1977, Chairman 1972-1977. Director Electric and General Investment Company Limited.
1967-1987, Chairman 1977-1980. Chairman Open University Educational Enterprises Limited.
1977-1979; Chairman British Council 1977-1984, President since 1985.
Chairman British Kidney Patient Association Investment Trust Public Limited Company 87, Ranfurly Library Service since 1985. President National Book League since 1984. Director Equity and Law Life Assurance Society Limited.
1965-1977, Barclays Bank United Kingdom Limited.
1973-1981, Barclays Bank Institute Limited. 1977-1982, Thomas Tilling Limited.
1973-1979, William Collins and Sons (Holding) Limited. 1977-1989 (Deputy Chairman 89), Whitbread and Company Limited.
1978-1985, Times Newspapers Holdings Limited.
1983-1988. Whitbread Investment Company Limited. since 1981.
Court of Governors, South.E. since 1975, Standing Committee 1977-1980. Design Council 1975-1978, Royal College, of Art Council 1976-1979, Royal Literary Fund General Committee since 1976, London Library Committee 1976-1979, Board of Manager Navy, Army and Air Force Instituts 1953-1973.
Married Constance Gillean Mitford in 1947.