Background
DELL, Edmund. PC. Master of Arts Son of Reuben and Frances Dell.
DELL, Edmund. PC. Master of Arts Son of Reuben and Frances Dell.
Owen’s School, London, The Queens' College, Oxford.
Lecturer, The Queen's College, Oxford 1947-1949. Executive Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., 1949-1963. President Manchester and Salford Trades Council 1958-1961.
Member of Parliament for Birkenhead 1964-1979. Pari. Secretary Ministry of Technology 1966-1967, Pari. Under-Secretary of State, Department, of Economics Affairs 1967-1968, Minister of State, Board of Trade 1968-1969, Minister of State, Department, of Employment 1969-1970, Chairman Public Accounts Committee of House of Commons 1972-1974, Paymaster-General 1974-1976.
Secretary of State for Trade 1976-1978. Appointed by the European Council as. Director, Chairman Guinness Peat Group 1979-1982.
FounderChair. Channel Four TV Company 1980-1987. Chairman Public Finance Foundation since 1984, Prison Reform Trust since 1988. Deputy Chair, of Council, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1988-1990, Chairman June 1990.
Deputy Chairman Board of Governors, Imperial College, University of London. Director (non-exec.) Sheil Transport and Trading since 1979. Honorary Fellow Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Manchester City Council 1953-1960. Of Committee of Three to report on mechanisms and procedures of the Institutions of the European Economic Community 1978-1979.
Married Susanne Gottschalk in 1963.