Robert Greenwood Tarran

Robert Greenwood Tarran (25 April 1892 – 20 September 1955)[2] was a British civil engineering contractor and managing director of Tarran Industries, Ltd.[3] He was an elected member of Hull City Council and served as Sheriff of Hull and as its chief Air Raid Warden during the Second World War.

[6] In September 1914, he enlisted with the Northumbrian Field Ambulance Service, and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps through 1919.

In 1941, he had a government contract worth £3 million for fortifying parts of Britain's east coast against German invasion.

[9] Before the success of his appeal he founded another business in Scotland but he still spent time in Hull, and died at home on 20 September 1955.

[2] In December 1947, he was convicted of making and publishing a false statement in the company's 1943 balance sheet, and sentenced to nine months hard labour.

[3] Tarran's defence counsel, My C. Paley Scott, said to the judge:[12] I would like to put it to you that this was not a case of a man making a false statement for direct self-interest.

I ask you to deal with this as mercifully as possible.He was sentenced to nine months hard labour on each count, to run concurrently,[12] and jailed at Leeds.