CHAIRMAN OF P. & O. COMPANY

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 159, 1 April 1938, Page 11

CHAIRMAN OF P. & O. COMPANY

Lord Craigmyle Succeeded By Sir William Currie

London, March 30.

Lord Craigmyle has resigned the chairmanship of the P. and O. Company, acting on medical advice. He retains his seat 'on the board. Sir William Currie becomes chairman, Mr. A. Lang deputy-chairman, and Mr. D. M. Hamilton a managing director.

Lord Craigmyle, formerly the Hon. Alexander Shaw, was born in 1883, and is the eldest son of the first baron, whom he succeeded in 1937. He married Lady Margaret Mackay, a daughter of Lord Inchcape. He was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford University and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple iw 1908, practising in the King's Bench Division and at the Parliamentary Bar and representing various local bodies at public inquiries. From 1915 to 1923 he was in the House of Commons, representing Kilmarnock in the Liberal interests. In 1915 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Sir John Simon, who was then Home Secretary, and in 191719 was private secretary to Sir Albert Stanley, then President of the Board of Trade. He was given a commission in the Royal Marine Artillery in 1915, and served through the Battle of the Somme in the following year. He was a member of the Disabled Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Compensation Committee in 1918, was chairman of the special tribunal which decided the wages of women munition workers in 1917-18, served on the Enemy Aliens’ Repatriation Board, and was a member of the Board of Trade Advisory Council in 1927, and of the Imperial Shipping Committee in 1931. In 1927 he was president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and he is also a director of the Bank of England.

Sir William Currie was born in 1884, and has been deputy-chairman and managing director of the P. and O. and Britist India Steam Navigation Companies since 1932. He was Sheriff of Calcutta in 1921-22, and was formerly president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and president of the Associated Chambers of India, Burma, and Ceylon. For four terms between 1921 and 1925 he was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council and in 1925 he was a member of the Indian Council of State. He was president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom in 1929, and a member of the‘lmperial Shipping Committee in 1927-31. Elis knighthood dates from 1925.--