Background
Smith, John was born on April 30, 1918 in Shipley, Yorkshire. Son of Thomas A. Smith and Pattie Smith.
Smith, John was born on April 30, 1918 in Shipley, Yorkshire. Son of Thomas A. Smith and Pattie Smith.
Salt High School, Shipley, Yorkshire.
Served Royal Army Medical Corps 1940-1946. Deputy Clerk and Chief Financial Officer, Littleborough, Lancashire 1946-1949. Various posts in West Midlands Gas Board, to Assistant Chief Accountant 1949-1961.
Chief Accountant, Southern Gas Board 1961-1965.
Director of Finance and Administration, East Midland Gas Board 1965-1968. Full-time; Deputy Chairman 1968-1972.
Deputy Chair, and Chief Executive Officer British Gas Corporation 1976-1983. Chairman Moracrest Investments Limited.
1977-1985; Deputy Chairman 1984-1989).
Lazards American Exempt Fund since 1976, British American Property Unit Trust since 1982. Chairman 1985-1989), Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, London 1977-1981. Chairman Nationalised Industries’ Finance Panel 1978-1983, British-American Property Unit Trust.
East Midland Gas Board, also Deputy. Foreign Finance, Gas Council 1972, British Gas Corporation 1973-1976. Pension Funds Property Unit Trust 89 (Deputy.
United Property Unit Trust 1983-1989.
Married Phyllis Mary Baxter in 1945.