Education
Pilkington was educated at Rugby School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Rugby in Warwickshire, followed by Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.
Pilkington was educated at Rugby School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Rugby in Warwickshire, followed by Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.
He was also Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1966 to 1980. This glass manufacturing company became the lone survivor of twenty-four glass manufacturers from the 19th century. While other glass manufacturing companies died from competition, the Pilkington company advanced its techniques.
In 1967 the company controlled 85% of the glass making business in the United Kingdom and exported its products to over 100 countries.
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The unintended result of this conclusion was the creation of offshore commercial pirate radio in 1964. lieutenant also commended the British Broadcasting Corporation for the high quality of its television programming and recommended that the franchise for the-then third television channel should be granted to the British Broadcasting Corporation (which opened as British Broadcasting Corporation 2 in 1964), rather than to a commercial operator.