Career
Wincott edited the Investors Chronicle for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times. He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank based in Westminster, London. Legacy
According to one contemporary, Wincott had an "enormous influence on City thinking".
lieutenant was Wincott who invented the character Solomon Binding in his column as a joke on the numerous "solemn and binding" pledges made at Trades Union Congress Conferences.
The Conservative politician John Biffen has claimed: "If I had a mentor, it was probably Harold Wincott". The Foundation sponsors annual awards for economic, financial and business journalism in the United Kingdom, and provides fellowships and scholarships to journalists.
