Background
Allen, Peter was born on September 8, 1905 in Ashtead, Surrey. Son of the late Sir Ernest King Allen and Florence Mary (nbe Gellatly).
industrial chemist and business executive
Allen, Peter was born on September 8, 1905 in Ashtead, Surrey. Son of the late Sir Ernest King Allen and Florence Mary (nbe Gellatly).
Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford.
Joined Brunner, Mond and Company (now Mond Division of Imperial Chemical Industries) 1928. Manager Director Plastics Division, Imperial Chemical Industries (Imperial Chemical Industries) 1942-1948, Chairman Plastics Division 1948-1951, Director of I. Imperial Order of the Crown of India 1951-1971, Deputy Chairman 1963-1968, Chairman 1968-1971. President Canadian Industries Limited.
1959-1962, Chairman 1962-1968.
President, and Chairman Imperial Chemical Industries of Canada Limited. 1961-1968; Director Royal Trust Company, Canada 1961-1964.
President British Plastics Federation 1963-1965. Chairman 1970-1973), Chairman Committee Exports to Canada 1964-1967.
President Chemical Industries Association Limited.
1965-1967. Deputy Chairman African Explosives & Chemical Industries Limited. 1968-1971; Director ICIANZ 1968-1971.
Bank of Montreal 1968-1975, British Insulated Callender’s Cables (Bonn International Center for Conversion) 1971-1981.
President University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1968-1971. Vice-President British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education since 1969. Director New Perspective Fund 1973-1985.
Fellow, British Institute of Manager, Institute of Directors.
Honorary Doctorate.Tech. (Loughborough). Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford.
Freeman, City of London 1978. Governor Harrow School 1969-1982.
Export Council for Europe 1962-1965. Iron & Steel Holding and Realisation Agency 1963-1967. British National Export Council.
National Economics Development Committee Chemical Industry 1964-1967.
Council of Confederation of British Industry 1965-1967. Industrial Policy Group 1969-1972.
British Overseas Trade Board 1972-1975, Honorary member Canadian Chemical Producers Association since 1962.
Married 1st Violet Sylvester Wingate-Saul in 1931 (died in 1951), two daughter. Married 2nd Consuelo Maria Linares Rivas.