Horatio Ballantyne
Horatio Ballantyne (* 1871 in Glasgow ; † January 25, 1956 ) was a British chemist and manager (Unilever Group).
Life and activity
Ballantyne was a son of Thomas Ballantyne and his wife Jane, b. Chalmers. After attending Garnethill School, Ballantyne studied at Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1887 he became assistant to the City Analyst of Glasgow (until 1896). At the same time, he deepened his training in the laboratories of Wallace Tatlock & Clark and in those of RR Tatlock, Thomson & Redman.
In 1896 Ballantyne settled in London as a consulting chemist. During this activity, which he pursued until 1928, he specialized in particular in patent law relating to chemical processes and cognate matter. In this connection he appeared frequently as an expert witness before the British highest court.
From 1916 to 1928 Ballantyne was director of Thermit Ltd. in addition to his other activities. From 1928 to 1937 he served as a director of Lever Brothers and Unilever . From 1937 until his death, Ballantyne was an advisory director at Lever Bros and Unilever Ltd.
Due to his leading position in the British economy, Ballantyne was classified as an important target by the National Socialist police at the end of the 1930s: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who should be successfully invaded and occupied of the British Isles should be located and arrested by the Wehrmacht by the occupation troops following special commandos of the SS with special priority.
In addition, he sat on numerous commissions and bodies: For example, he was a member of the Conference for the Amendment of Patent Law (Tech. Instns. Conference on Patent Law Amendment) (1918–1919), the inter-ministerial commission for the development of procedures for dealing with inventions by government employees (Interdepartmental Commission on methods of dealing with inventions made by Government servants) and the Government Commission for Patent Law (1929).
Ballantyne was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute for Chemistry.
family
Ballantyne was married to Katherine Isabella Russel, with whom he had three daughters.
literature
- World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present , 1968, p. 101.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ballantyne, Horatio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1956 |