Sir Charles Redvers Westlake (29 April 1900 – 17 February 1972)[1] was a British electrical engineer and industrialist.
[6] In 1946 Westlake was appointed by the British Colonial Office to recommend a site for a hydroelectric power station in Uganda.
Westlake, as chairman of the newly formed Uganda Electricity Board, went on to direct the project (now known as the Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station) until its commissioning in 1954.
[12] In 1956 he returned to England to become chairman of Metal Industries, Limited, where he remained until 31 October 1964, leading the group from a position of heavy losses to a profitable state.
[14] In 1969 he became chairman of the S. W. Wood Group, a non-ferrous metal merchant[15] Westlake married twice: in 1929 to Winifred Lucy Luxton Western, with whom he had two daughters (Patricia and Barbara), and in 1968 to Evelyn Isabel Aistrup.