Lord
Pilkington (b. 1905 d. 1983)
Lord Pilkington was the first Chancellor of the University. He
was Chairman of Pilkington Brothers, glass manufacturers, from 1949
- 1973. He
was at various time President of the Confederation of British Industries
and chaired a number of Royal Commissions, national advisory councils,
and public enquiries.
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Sir Arnold Hall (b. 1915 d. 2000)
A Fellow of the Royal Society, who at the time of his appointment
was Chairman and Managing Director of the Hawker Siddley Group. Sir
Arnold had been Professor of Aviation and Head of the Department
of Aeronautics at Imperial College, London and Director of the Royal
Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough.
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Sir Denis Rooke (b. 1924)
Sir Denis was educated at Westminster City School and Addey and
Stanhope School, and at University College London, from which he
graduated in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. He served
in 1944 with REME in India and Britain, and was promoted to Major. Sir
Denis was Chairman successively of the Gas Council, the British Gas
Corporation and British Gas PLC from 1976 until his retirement in
June 1986. A nationally known figure, Sir Denis is admired
not only for his contributions to the business world but also for
his active support of developments in higher education, particularly
as Chairman of the Council for National Academic Awards. Sir
Denis was also President of the Fellowship of Engineering and a Fellow
of the Royal Society. He was awarded a CBE in
1970 and knighted in 1977 for his service to the gas industry. In
1997 he was appointed to the Order
of Merit.
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Sir John Jennings (b. 1937)
Installed as Chancellor in July 2003, Sir John Jennings, CBE, FRSE
is the former chairman of the Shell Transport and Trading Company plc. Sir
John was educated at Oldbury Grammar School and Birmingham and Edinburgh
Universities, gaining a BSc in Geology in 1958 and a PhD three years
later. He was also Sloan Fellow at the London Business School. Sir
John joined Shell in 1968, where he worked in a variety of posts in
the UK and abroad, becoming Managing Director of Shell UK Exploration
and Production Ltd in 1979 and Exploration and Production Coordinator
for Shell International in 1984. He was Managing Director of the Royal
Dutch Shell Group from 1987 to 1997 and Chairman of the Shell Transport
and Trading Company plc from 1993 to 1997. Sir John was a Director
of the company between 1987 and 2001. He received an Honorary
DSc from the Universities of Edinburgh in 1991 and Birmingham in 1998,
and has been a member of the governing bodies at the London Business
School and the University of Exeter. |
