Background
BECKETT, Terence Norman was born on December 13, 1923 in Walsall, Staffs. Son of Horace Norman and Clarice Lillian (nee Allsop) Beckett, brother of John Beckett.
BECKETT, Terence Norman was born on December 13, 1923 in Walsall, Staffs. Son of Horace Norman and Clarice Lillian (nee Allsop) Beckett, brother of John Beckett.
Wolverhampton and South. Staffs. Technology College, London School of Economics.
Served in Britain, India and Malaya 1945-1948. Joined Ford Motor Company as Manager Trainee 1950, Styling Manager, Briggs Motor Bodies Limited. (Ford subsidiary) 1954, Administration Manager, Engineer, then Manager Product Staff 1955, General Planning Manager, Product Planning Staff 1961, Manager Marketing Staff 1963, Director, Carolina Division, Ford Motor Company Limited.
1964, Executive Director 1966, Director of Sales 1968, Vice-President European and Overseas Sales Operations, Ford of Europe 1969-1973.
Manager Director, Chief Executive, Ford Motor Company Limited. 1974-1980, Chairman 1976-1980.
Former Chairman Ford Motor Credit Company Limited. Director (non-executive) Central Electricity Generating Board 1987-1990, Deputy Chairman since 1990.
Chair, and Pro-Chancellor University of Essex October since 1989.
Former Director Imperial Chemical Industries, Ford Nederland North.V., Ford Lusitana South.A.RL., Portugal, Henry Ford & Son Limited., Ireland, Ford Motor Company A/South, Denmark, Ford Motor Company Bachelor of Arts, Sweden, Automotive Finance Limited. Former; Executive Committee Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Fellow, Fellowship of Engineering 1980.
Chairman Governing Body of London Business School, London Business School Trust Company Limited.
1979-1986, Council of Motor Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund. Governor, Cranfield Institute of Technology, National Institute of Economical Social Research, London School of Economics.
Patron, Manpower Services Commission. Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge since 1981.
Honorary Fellow" (London Business School) since 1987.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Cranfield Institute of Technology) 1977, (Heriot-Watt) 1981, Honorary Doctorate.Sc.Econ. (London) 1982; Hambro Businessman of the Year.
Of Council China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations; Council and National Economic Development Council 1980-1987; Court and Council Essex University since 1985, Top Salaries Review Body since 1987. Reme Institute 1990.
Married Sylvia Gladys Asprey in 1950.