Background
HARRISON, Ernest Son of Ernest Horace Harrison and Gertrude Rebecca Gibbons Harrison.
London business executive: 11 May 1926
HARRISON, Ernest Son of Ernest Horace Harrison and Gertrude Rebecca Gibbons Harrison.
Trinity Grammar School.
Director 1958, Deputy Manager Director 1961, Chair, and Chief Executive since 1966, Chairman Racal Telecom since 1988. Chair, and Chief Executive Decca Limited. since 1980, Racal-Chubb Limited. since 1985. Active in National Savings Movement 1964-1976.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Cranfield) 1981, (City) 1982.
Honorary Doctorate.Univ (Surrey) 1981, (Edinburgh) 1983. Businessman of Year 1981.
Leisure interests horse racing (owner), gardening and sport.
Married Phyllis Brenda Knight in 1960.