Baron Strathalmond,of Pumpherston in the County of Midlothian,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 February 1955 for the businessman Sir William Fraser. He was chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company from 1941 to 1956. His son,the second Baron,was managing director of the Kuwait Oil Company and a director of BP and later chairman of Govan Shipbuilders. As of 2017 the title is held by the latter's son,the third Baron,who succeeded in 1976.
Baron Merthyr,of Senghenydd in the County of Glamorgan,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Welsh coal mining magnate Sir William Lewis,1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet,of Nantgwyne in the County of Glamorgan,in 1896. The barony is named after the town of Merthyr Tydfil,where Lewis was born. Lord Merthyr's grandson,the third Baron,was Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords from 1957 to 1965 and a Deputy Speaker from 1957 to 1974. The latter was succeeded by his son,the fourth Baron. He disclaimed the peerage for life on 26 April 1977,three weeks after succeeding his father. He did not use his title of baronet either. He died on 5 August 2015.
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Thomas Sivewright Catto,1st Baron Catto,CBE,PC was a Scottish businessman and later Governor of the Bank of England.
John Cadman,1st Baron Cadman,was a British mining engineer,petroleum technologist and public servant.
Arthur Vere Harvey,Baron Harvey of Prestbury,was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years.
Michael John Brougham,5th Baron Brougham and Vaux,,was a British peer and a member of the House of Lords from 1968 until his death.
William Jocelyn Ian Fraser,Baron Fraser of Lonsdale,was a British Conservative Party politician,a Governor of the BBC,a successful businessman and the first person to be awarded a life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958.
David Wigley Nickson,Baron Nickson,is a British businessman,a former crossbench peer and a former President of the Confederation of British Industry. He was Chairman of the Clydesdale Bank,Scottish &Newcastle,Scottish Enterprise and the Government's Senior Salaries Review Body.
Charles Greenway,1st Baron Greenway,known as Sir Charles Greenway,1st Baronet,from 1919 to 1927,was a British businessman.
Brien Ibrican Cokayne,1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne was a British businessman and banker.
Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole,1st Baron Poole,was a British Conservative Party politician,soldier and businessman.
William Piercy,1st Baron Piercy CBE was a British economist,civil servant,businessman and financier. He is best remembered as chairman of the Industrial &Commercial Finance Corporation from 1945 to 1964.
William Westwood,1st Baron Westwood OBE,was a British trade unionist and Labour politician.
Arthur Clifford Hartley,CBE was a British civil engineer. Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Imperial College London,Hartley worked for the North Eastern Railway and an asphalt manufacturer before joining the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He became a qualified pilot,with the rank of major and joined the Air Board where he was involved with the development of interrupter gear. His war work was rewarded with his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He left the corps after the war and spent five years as a consulting engineer before he joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Robert Maurice Alers Hankey,2nd Baron Hankey,was a British diplomat and public servant.
Frederick Godber,1st Baron Godber of Mayfield was a British petroleum executive.
Sir Harold Edgar Yarrow,2nd Baronet,GBE FRS FRSE was a British industrialist and shipbuilder. He developed Yarrow Shipbuilders as Chairman and Managing Director,as well as later serving as Chairman of Clydesdale Bank.
Richard Michael Fraser,Baron Fraser of Kilmorack,CBE was a British Conservative Party political administrator. The Conservative historian Lord Blake wrote that Fraser "will go down to history as a figure comparable only to Gorst under Disraeli or the famous Captain Middleton under Salisbury".
William Roberton Fraser,3rd Baron Strathalmond is a British hereditary peer.
