Career
Educated at Street Albans School in Hertfordshire, Harry Solomon qualified as a solicitor in 1960 and went on to practise law. He founded Solomon Taylor & Shaw in Hampstead in the 1970s. In 1976 he co-founded Hillsdown Holdings and built it into one of the United Kingdom"s largest food businesses.
He retired from the business in 1993.
He is also a Non-Executive Director of Portland Capital and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was knighted in 1991 for services to the food industry.
