Background
SHANNON, Richard Bentinck Boyle was born on October 23, 1924 in Ootacumund, India. Parents: the late Robert Henry Boyle, 8th Earl of Shannon and Marjorie Walker.
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Richard Bentinck Boyle SHANNON
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Eton, 1937-1942.
Career
Member, House of Lords, European Communities Committee, sits as Baron Carleton. Captain, Irish Guards, 1942-1953. Director, Federation of Technology Centres, 1969-1985.
Former Chairman, The Science Centre Project. Former Chairman. Foundation for Science and Technology. Former President, Kent Branch.
Institut, of Mgmt.; President. Architectural Metalwork Association, 1966. Vice-President, Inland Waterways Association.
Vice President, ASLIB, 1974. Secretary /Treasurer, Federation of European Industrial Co-operative Research Organisations, 1974-1986. Former Vice-President, British Hydromechanics Research Association.
President, Foundation for the Education of the Underachieving and Dyslexic. Chairman. Strategy Europe Ltd., 1988-1990. Chairman, Access Parliamentary Affairs, since 1989.
Chairman, Equinox Group Ltd., since 1992.
Religion
Church of England.
Membership
Clubs: White’s Club; Fellow, British Institute of Management. Fellow, Royal Society of Arts. Member, British Horological Institute.
Connections
Spouse Catherine Imperiali di Francavilla, 1947.
