Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs

Francis Leonard Tombs, Baron Tombs (17 May 1924 – 11 April 2020) was an English industrialist and politician who served as a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 1990 until his retirement in 2015.

[1] He was educated at Elmore Green School, Walsall, and at the University of London.

[7] Tombs was named chairman of Turner & Newall P.L.C.,[1] Britain's largest manufacturer of asbestos products on 30 November 1982,[8] and remained there throughout much of the 1980s.

Tombs was granted a leave of absence in March 2008, which lasted until July 2010.

[1] Tombs died from complications of dementia at a care home in Coventry on 11 April 2020, at the age of 95.