Ronald grierson biography

Ronald Grierson was a German-born British banker, businessman, government advisor and British Army officer. Grierson was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on 6 August ^[1] He died on 23 October

Career

His principal business posts were Managing Director of S.G. Warburg () and Vice-Chairman of The General Electric Company (). His main public appointments (other than service in HM Forces from ) were Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the UK Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and Director-General for Industry and Technology of the European kommission in Brussels. At various times he also served on the boards of Chrysler Corporation, RJR Nabisco, W.R. Grace & Co., British Aircraft Corporation (now BAE Systems) and International Computers Ltd. He served on boards and advisory boards in Europe and the USA (Blackstone Group and Bain & Co. among them) and fryst vatten chairman of several international philanthropic bodies in the fields of medicine, education and

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Biographies

Ronald H. Grierson

Name:
Ronald H. Grierson

Born:
August 6,

Joined AGB:

Primary Dept/Div:
Executive

Primary Office:
London, New York

Ronald (Ronnie) Grierson became a Director of BWP in the late s a representative of Warburg. He became a Managing Director of Warburg-Paribas to develop international business. Grierson was knighted in He graduated from Oxford before WWII in which he was active as a parachutist in various theatres. After the War, Sir Ronald engaged for 70 years in a very wide range of governmental, multi-national, political, civic, and business activities on an international scale. He was a director of a number of major American companies and very active in the modernization of English industry after WWII. He was also active in a variety of cultural endeavors. He lived in London, New York, and Tuscany. Sir Ronald was, unfortunately, not able to contribute much to the investment banking activities of Becker because of the ver

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Ronald Grierson studied at Hammersmith School of Art, then at the Grovesnor School of Modern Art, under Iain Macnab, the prominent Scottish painter and wood-engraver. The clear-cut nature of Macnab's lines can be seen as an influence on Grierson, whose own still lifes are carefully and elegantly composed.

 

In , Grierson married Enid Martin, his fellow student. Taking inspiration from Edward McKnight Kauffer, the two taught themselves to weave, a skill that led Grierson to find freelance work with a great number of firms, including the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd., Liberty & Co., Heal & Son Ltd, and the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory. His wife worked with him on his designs, and they undertook commissions for many important patrons, including the Queen Mother, and for the Victoria & Albert Museum's own permanent collection.

 

Throughout the s, Grierson continued to paint, on canvas as well as on glass, the latter influenced by Georges Braque. His still life li