Robert Haslam (industrialist)

Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam ( * February 4, 1923 Bolton, Lancashire, † November 2, 2002, Virginia Water, Surrey ) was a British engineer and industrialist.

Robert Haslam failed the entrance exam for the University of Cambridge and studied at the University of Birmingham initially about geography, geology, and then finally Mining Sciences. He worked from 1944 to 1947 for the mining company Manchester Colle Ries.

In 1947 he began working as a mining engineer for the explosives division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI ). With his knowledge in the field of explosives, he advised David Lean in the construction and destruction of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. Haslam has held various positions at ICI and was responsible for the dismissal of 7,000 employees as part of a Europe-wide restructuring of the company in the early 1970s. Until 1980, he was promoted to chairman of ICI.

1982 wanted to nominate him as chairman for the British Coal Board Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but a cerebral hemorrhage prevented this and 1983 he was both Chairman of Tate & Lyle as well as British Steel. In 1990, he was officially retired and was as a life peer member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Party. At the same time he was until 1999 the Chairman of the British section of U.S. investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co.

Robert Haslam was married from 1947 until her death in 1995 with Joyce Quin. The couple had two sons. Haslam was married in second marriage in 1996 with Elizabeth Sieff.

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  • Lord Haslam in: The Daily Telegraph, November 5, 2002, retrieved on January 18, 2014

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