Alex Ross (rower)

Sir Alexander Ross (2 September 1907 – 10 April 1994) was a New Zealand-born banker and rower who competed at the 1930 British Empire Games.

[2] In 1930 he was a member of the men's Coxless fours team that won the bronze medal at the British Empire Games in Hamilton Ontario.

He had risen to deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank[4] when he was invited by a visitor to New Zealand, John Gibson Jarvie,[5] to join Jarvie's banking group in London, United Dominions Trust Limited where Ross rose to be appointed chairman in 1963.

Other posts included deputy chairman of Eagle Star Insurance and director of Whitbread Investment Trust.

[2] Ross served as chairman of the East European Trade Council, and in the 1971 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor, for services to export.