George Legh-Jones

Sir George Legh-Jones (March 24, 1890 - 1960 ) was a British manager. He held managerial positions in the Royal Dutch Shell group from the 1920s to the 1940s .

Life and activity

Legh-Jones was the son of the chief accountant at the Cambrian Railway Edward Legh-Jones. In 1911 he joined the Canadian Bank of Commerce .

On August 4, 1914, he volunteered as a war volunteer on the occasion of the British entry into World War I.

In 1919 Legh-Jones joined the Royal Dutch Shell Group. He first became a manager in the Fuel oil Department of Asiatic Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of the group. In 1921 he was deployed for a few months at the Group's headquarters in The Hague. In 1922 he was sent to San Francisco as president of the Shell Oil Company in California , where he was director of the operations of the Shell group on the American west coast until 1934.

In 1934 Legh-Jones returned to Europe as manager of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, another branch of the Shell group. In 1937 he was finally accepted to the board of directors of Shell Transport and Trading Company and appointed one of the managing directors of the group's political operating companies.

In June 1944, Legh-Jones became Managing Director of the Shell Transport and Trading Company. In this position he was instrumental in building up the Shell Group's own tanker fleet. In March 1949 he moved to the board of directors of Lloyd Bank, at that time one of the five big English banks.

Legh-Jones was a member of the Order of the British Empire and in 1950 to Knight Bachelor beaten

literature

• Canadian Bank of Commerce: Letters from the front: Being a record of the part played by officers of the bank in the great war, 1914-1919 , Vol. 2, p. 254.

Web links

• Entry from Who Was Who on Legh-Jones, reproduced in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography