CAREER ENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 8

CAREER ENDS.

LORD STAMP.

BRILLIANT ECONOMIST

One of tlie most distinguished economist*, of his time, and also well known ns president of the London. Midland and Scottish Railway. Josiah Charles Stamp. fir.-t Baron of Shortlands. has been .killed as the result of an air raid over London. Lord Stamp had written extensively on economic and statistical 'luestions. especially taxation, and wa* also a leader in building society movements.

r>(irn in London in June, ISSO. Lord Stamp, lit the ajrc of IS, topped the li.-t in an open examination and went to the Board of Trade. At 10 he was an assistant surveyor of taxes. In addition to his work as a civil servant, lie continued his education at London I'nivercity, taking his B.Sc. with firstclass honours in 1011 and becoming (olideii Prizeman in 1012. At 21 he jmi)|K'd over the heads of a hundred other officials to become a first-class surveyor of taxes. By 1010 he had reached the rank of Assistant-Secretary of the Inland Revenue Department, at a salary of £1000.

Tn 102.) he accepted the new post of president of the executive of the London. Midland and Scottish Railway, with a salary larger than that of "a Cabinet Minister, remaining, however, for the time beinjr a director of the Nobel concern. His post was a novel "no in the British railway world. inan ? iirated in view of the ' problems iuisinjr out of the amalgamation*. In 102( he was elected a director of the L..M.S. and appointed chairman of the company, while retaining hie post a* president.

(See cable and picture on pase 7.)