Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre

Keith was knighted in the 1969 Queen's Birthday Honours List[1] and was created a life peer as Baron Keith of Castleacre, of Swaffham in the County of Norfolk on 6 February 1980.

[2] He presided over the mergers that formed the British merchant bank Hill Samuel, and also chaired Rolls-Royce after the company's receivership and subsequent nationalisation in 1971, helping to organise the recovery of the RB211 project.

After retiring from those chairmanships in 1980 he was chairman of STC and of Beecham.

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