Robens of Woldingham, Alfred Robens, Baron, 1910-1999

found: His Enlightened management and peace in industry, 1958:title page (Alfred Robens)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, viewed March 21, 2023(Robens, Alfred, Baron Robens of Woldingham (1910-1999); politician and industrialist; born December 18, 1910 in Chorlton; between 1935 and 1945 he was a full-time official for the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers; unfit for service during the war, he was a Manchester city councillor between 1941 and 1945; he won the Wansbeck division of Northumberland in the 1945 election, remaining Labour MP until 1960; parliamentary private secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1945-47, and parliamentary private secretary under Hugh Gaitskell at the Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1947-51; in 1960 he was offered the chairmanship of the National Coal Board, which he ran from 1961 (when he was created a life peer as Baron Robens of Woldingham) until 1971; in 1966, while still at the NCB, he was appointed a director of the Bank of England; from 1971 to 1979 he also held the chairmanship of Vickers; he was chairman of the bullion company Johnson Matthey, 1971-83; he was also chairman of the Engineering Industries Council (1976-80); and a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (1965-8) and the National Economic Development Council (1976-80); he was a member of the council of Manchester Business School, and chairman, 1970-79 and chairman of the board of governors of Guy's Hospital, 1965-74; he died at his home in Chertsey, Surrey on June 27, 1999)