Arnold Weinstock (29 July 1924-23 July 2002) was an English businessman. July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Education

London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow 1985). His degree was in statistics, and he was later a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it has 7200 members in the UK and the rest of the world, around 1500 of whom are professionally qualified. ...

Career

He was a junior administrative officer in the Admiralty, 1944-47. He engaged in finance and property development with a group of private companies, 1947-54. He was Managing Director, Radio & Allied Industries Ltd (later Radio & Allied Holdings Ltd), 1954-63. Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ...

He was a director of GEC, 1961-3, the Managing Director, 1963-96, then Chairman Emeritus. He was a director of Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd, 1971-73. The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ... The Rolls Royce logo Rolls-Royce is a set of several companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ...

Other activities

Vice President, Friends of the Ravenna Festival, 1993-94. Trustee of the British Museum, 1985-96; Royal Philharmonic Society, Foundation Fund, 1984-92. Member, Jockey Club. The main entrance to the British Museum. ... The Royal Philharmonic Society is a British music society, formed in 1813. ... The Jockey Club is responsible for the day-to-day regulation of United Kingdom horse-racing. ...

Honours

He was knighted in 1970 and made a Life Peer in 1980. In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...

Honorary Fellow, Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1982. Honorary Bencher, Gray's Inn, 1982. Hon. DSc: Salford, 1975; Aston, 1976; Bath, 1978; Reading, 1978; Ulster, 1987; Hon. LLD: Leeds, 1978; Wales, 1985; Keele, 1997; Hon. DTech Loughborough, 1981; DUniv Anglia Poly., 1994; Hon. DEconSc London, 1997. Full name Peterhouse Motto - Named after St Peters Church (now little St Marys Church) Previous names - Established 1284 Sister College Merton College Master The Lord Wilson of Tillyron Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates 271 Graduates 128 Homepage Boatclub Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. ... Entrance to Grays Inn Grays Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. ...

Commendatore, Ordine al Merito (Italy), 1991; Officier, Légion d'Honneur (France), 1992.

References

Who's Who 2001 Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain Whos Who, ISBN 0-713-662-751, is an annual British publication by A & C Black of very short biographies of about 30,000 famous and/or important Britons, published since 1849. ...