Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin
Harry Aaron Kissin, Baron Kissin (born August 23, 1912 in Gdansk , † August 23, 1997 in Westminster , London ) was a British entrepreneur , banker and politician who was a member of the House of Lords in 1974 as a life peer based on the Life Peerages Act 1958 has been.
Life
Kissin, the son of a Jewish grain trader from Russia , studied law at the University of Basel after attending school in Gdansk and, after being admitted to the bar in 1934, worked as a lawyer in Basel for a short time before moving to London in 1934 and becoming director of the Company Windygates became. On July 27, 1946, he acquired British citizenship through naturalization .
After the end of the Second World War he worked closely with the banker Siegmund G. Warburg and together with him founded the company GH Kay Overseas in 1947 , a wholesale and foreign trade company that concentrated on Eastern Europe . He also worked as a commercial banker and in 1958 became managing director of the old London company Lewis & Peat . After he became CEO of this company in 1973, it merged with the merchant banking company Guinness Mahon in 1974 and formed the Guinness Peat Group , of which he remained CEO until 1979.
In addition to his economic activities, Kissin was involved in numerous social institutions and was, among other things, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) between 1968 and 1975 and Chairman of the Trust of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from 1974 to 1980 . His confidants in this cultural and political work included people such as the chairman of the British art council Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman . He was also Governor of the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
For his economic and financial achievements, Kissin was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated June 27, 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Kissin , of Camden in Greater London, and as such was a member of the House of Lords until his death on. His official introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords took place on July 29, 1974 with the support of Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman and Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge . Although he was considered a supporter of the Labor Party and had acted as an advisor to two-time Prime Minister Harold Wilson since the 1950s , he joined the Crossbencher group in the House of Lords .
Web links
- Harry Kissin at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
- William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , 2011, ISBN 1403939101 . P. 522
- Norman Lebrecht: Covent Garden: The Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000 , 2001, ISBN 1-55553-4-880 , pp. 301 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enclosure ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 160 kB) from The London Gazette of August 20, 1946
- ^ Entry in Hansard from July 29, 1974
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kissin, Harry, Baron Kissin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kissin, Harry Aaron, Baron Kissin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British banker and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1997 |
| Place of death | Westminster , London |