Background
ROCHDALE, Viscount was born on June 5, 1906 in Rochdale, Lancashire.
ROCHDALE, Viscount was born on June 5, 1906 in Rochdale, Lancashire.
Eton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Director, Kelsall & Kemp Limited., Rochdale 1928-1939. Served with British Expeditionary Force in France 1939-1940. Attached to United States Forces in Pacific with rank of Colonel 1944.
Later with Combined Operations Command, India.
Brigadier 1945; President National Union of Manufacturers 1953-1956. Vice-President British Productivity Council 1955-1956.
Governor British Broadcasting Corporation 1954-1959. Director Consett Iron Company 1956-1967.
Chairman The Cotton Board 1957-1962.
Chairman Kelsall & Kemp Limited., Rochdale 1950-1971, Harland and Wolff Limited., Belfast 1971-1975. Director National and Commercial Banking Group Limited. 1971-1977; Chairman Committee of Enquiry into the Major Ports of Great Britain 1961-1962.
Deputy Chairman William & Glyn’s Bank Limited.
1973-1977; President British Legion (North.W. Area) 1954-1961, Economics League 1963-1969, North.-West. Industrial Development Association 1974-1984. Chairman National Ports Council 1963-1967, Committee of Inquiry into Shipping Industry 1967-1970.
Chairman Rosehill Arts Trust Limited. 1971-1978; Director Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency 1986-1991.
Textile Institute.
Central Transport Consultative Committee 1952-1957. Western Hemisphere Exports Council 1953-1964. And Past Upper Bailiff, Wor shipful Company of Weavers.
Married Elinor Dorothea Pease in 1931.