LORD AND LADY STAMP

Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 5

LORD AND LADY STAMP

KILLER IN AIR RAID (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 17. (Received April 18, at 9.57 a.m.) The deaths last night of Lord and Lady Stamp as the result of enemy action are recorded. Lord Stamp was Economic Adviser to the Government, and one of the outstanding economists, statisticians, and political scientists of our time, and, as chairman of the Loudon, Midland, and Scottish Railway, and. a director of the Bank of England, he occupied a unique position in the business world. He was G 1 years of age. [As chairman of the London, Midland, and Scottisli Railway and a director of the Bank of England, Lord Stamp proved himself an able administrator and organiser. In addition, he was recognised as an authority in the field of economics, and was possessed of an inside knowledge of the difficult' problems which arose in industry since the war period. Among his more important appointments were the representation of Britain on the committees which produced the Young Plan and the Dawes Plan, membership of the Court of Inquiry into the coal mining dispute of 1925, and membership of the Northern Ireland Finance Arbitration Committee. His affiliations with learned institutions and public bodies were immensely wide, and his early career in the Civil Service, first in the Inland Revenue Department and later in the Board of Trade, gave him great insight into the country’s affairs. It was as a writer that bo was probably best known in New Zealand, especially among those studying economics and accountancy.]