- Business leader
- Has one daughter named Gabrielle.
- Staff, Imperial Chemical Industries plc 1956-1967, Techno-commercial director 1967-1968, Deputy Chairman, Heavy Organic Chemicals Division 1968-1970, Chairman, Petrochemicals Division 1970-1973, Deputy chairman 1978-1982, Chairman 1982-1987; Chairman, The Economist 1989-1994.
- He was born in the UK, but spent his early childhood in India, where his father was an Army officer and tutor to a young Maharajah. When he was seven, he sent to a strict boarding school in Kent.
- In his teens, he attended the Royal Naval College, and went to sea at the age of 16. His ship was torpedoed twice. Later in WWII, he served in submarines, carrying out secret missions in the Baltic Sea.
- After the war, the Royal Navy sent him to Cambridge University to learn Russian and German for naval intelligence work. He left the Navy in 1956 as a lieutenant-commander because his daughter had contracted polio.
- He was hired by ICI as a junior manager, working his way up to chairman. He was knighted in 1985.
- He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1952.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to business and government.
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