Alistair Grant
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Sir Matthew Alistair Grant FRSE (6 March 1937 – 21 January 2001) was a British businessman.
Career
Grant was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire. He was chief executive of Argyll Group from 1986 to 1998 and governor of the Bank of Scotland from 1998 to 1999 when he was forced to resign due to ill-health, and died aged 63.[1][2]
He was also chairman of Scottish & Newcastle 1997–2000 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2] He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours.[3]
References
- ↑ Sir Alistair Grant (obituary), The Telegraph, London, 24 January 2001
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 GRANT, Sir (Matthew) Alistair, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 52767. p. 2. 30 December 1991.
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- 1937 births
- 2001 deaths
- People educated at Woodhouse Grove School
- British businesspeople
- Knights Bachelor
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Governors of the Bank of Scotland
- Anglo-Scots
- People from Haddington, East Lothian
- Cancer deaths in England
