Frank Schon, Baron Schon (18 May 1912 – 7 January 1995) was an Austrian-born British industrialist and life peer, who served as Chairman of the National Research Development Corporation between 1969 and 1979.
[2] In March 1939, ten days after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, Schon, who was Jewish, escaped to Britain with his wife.
He moved to Whitehaven and established Marchon Products, a chemicals firm, which became a leading supplier of detergent base.
[2] Schon became a member of the Northern Economic Planning Council in 1965, the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation in 1966 and the advisory council of the Ministry of Technology in 1968.
[1][2] In the 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours, Schon was appointed a Knight Bachelor.