Harry Pilkington

William Henry " Harry " Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of St Helens ( born 19 April 1905; † 22 December 1983) in the County Palatine of Lancaster DL was a British entrepreneur, who in 1968 as a Life Peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 Member the House of Lords was.

Life

Pilkington came from a family that in 1826 the glass manufacturing and processing companies Pilkington founded, which was used until 1970 privately owned. As a member of the fourth generation of the founding family was Harry Pilkington 1934 Member of the Executive Board of the company, before the company's CEO in 1949 and held this function until his resignation in 1973. During this time the asset of the company grew from 12.5 million pounds in 1949 to 206 million pounds in 1973 due to the success in the float glass production in the 1960s and the establishment of new business and production areas.

Between 1960 and 1962 he was chairman of the named after him and set up by the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Pilkington Committee to consider the quality of the radio and television program of the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) and the commercial Independent Television (ITV ). During the program the BBC has been positively evaluated in the resulting Pilkington Report, there was criticism of the ITV program In 1966 he became Chancellor of the newly established Loughborough University of Technology and held that post until his replacement by Arnold Alexander Hall 1980.

Pilkington was. Letters by a patent dated 18 January 1968 as a life peer with the title Baron Pilkington of St Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster member of the House of Lords, where he remained until his death

After his resignation was Alastair Pilkington in 1973 the new CEO of Pilkington Group Limited.