Desmond Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield

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Desmond Barel Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield (* 17th May 1913 ; † 6. December 1993 ) was a British business leaders , who was involved in addition to his work as CEO of various auditing and accounting firm in numerous social institutions and charities and the 1967 Life Peer due of the Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Hirshfield completed an apprenticeship as an accountant after attending school and joined the accounting company Hesketh Hardy in 1939 . After he became a partner there later, the company was in Hesketh Hardy Hirshfield and discussed since then, numerous unions and, since the 1960s, the Labor Party . The relationships established in the process led him to found Trades Union Unit Trust Managers Ltd in 1961 , of which he remained CEO until 1983.

During this time Hirshfield began his social engagement in numerous social institutions and charities, such as between 1960 and 1983 as President of the Norwood Charitable Trust , which runs numerous facilities for people with learning disabilities , especially in the London Jewish community . He was also the founder of the Foundation on Automation and Human Development in 1962 and remained its director until 1987. Furthermore, between 1967 and 1986 he was CEO of the accounting company Horwath & Horwath UK Ltd , which was founded in 1942 and from which today's company Crowe Horwath International emerged .

By a letters patent dated August 30, 1967, Hirshfield was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Hirshfield , of Holborn in Greater London, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Baron Hirshfield was also Vice-Chairman of the Northampton New Town Development Corporation , which coordinated the construction of the New Town of Northampton , from 1968 to 1976 , and from 1969 to 1983 for the first time Treasurer of the British Committee of UNICEF and from 1970 to 1971 Treasurer of the National Council for Unmarried Mothers and their children ( National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child ). In 1972 he was commissioned by the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath to write an investigation report into monopoly pricing within the nationalized steel industry.

He also served as President of the accounting company Horwath & Horwath International between 1977 and 1984 and was then International President from 1984 to 1986. During this time he was instrumental in expanding the company to seventy countries. In addition, he was Chairman of the Board of Management of the business consultancy MLH Consultants from 1981 to 1983 and again Treasurer of the British UNICEF Committee between 1986 and 1988.

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SURNAME Hirshfield, Desmond, Baron Hirshfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirshfield, Desmond Barel, Baron Hirshfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economic manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1913
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1993