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66: 25: 128: 190: 270:, becoming the largest shareholder of GEC. He served as a member of the board of directors from 1961 to 1963 and was managing director from 1963 to 1996, thence chairman Emeritus. He transformed the firm, raising its turnover from £100m in 1960 to £11bn at his retirement in 1996. 539:). Ballymacoll Stud continues as a stud owned by his family to this day. The Weinstock developed families of Reform (but also of Hellenic, Golan and Islington), Sun Prince (but also of Sun Princess and Spectrum), and Gaily (but also of Pilsudski) continue in the stud. 364:
of France in 1992. He was awarded an Honorary DSc: Salford, 1975; Aston, 1976; University of Bath, 1978; Reading, 1978; Ulster, 1987; Hon. LLD: Leeds, 1978; Wales, 1985; Keele, 1997; Hon. DTech Loughborough, 1981; DUniv Anglia Poly., 1994; Hon. DEconSc London, 1997.
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radio programme. He was also senior trustee of the Next Century Foundation, a peace process organisation he helped establish. He established the Weinstock Fund, a charitable foundation that supports a variety of benevolent and cultural causes.
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trained at various times for them. Upon Sir Michael Sobell's death, Weinstock continued his racing activities, in partnership with his son Simon. They owned 1995 Irish Two Thousand Guineas and Champion Stakes winner
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Upon a Wreath Argent Or and Azure on a Mount Vert two Musical Pipes saltirewise Or between two Stakes entwined by Vines fructed proper and ensigned by a Crown Rayonny Gules
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Dexter: a Male Griffin Azure beaked rayed and gorged with a Crown Tridenty and Forelegs Or; Sinister: a Horse Or gorged with a Wreath of Trefoils the stalks entwined Vert
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Dancetty Argent and Gules on each of three Piles two issuant in chief and one in base Azure a Sun in Splendour its straight rays each tipped with Flame Or
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won both the Epsom Oaks and St Leger. She in turn bred for them the Champion Two Year Old of 1988
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newspaper called him "Britain's premier post-second-world-war industrialist." He was appointed a
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in the period 1944–1947. In 1949, he married Netta Sobell, the daughter of industrialist
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but in 1970 with his father in law he purchased the West Ilsley stables from
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and the Foundation Fund (1984–1992). He became a friend of the conductor
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in Ireland. One of their early successful racehorses was a colt called
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at its launch in 1968. He was Vice-President of the Friends of the
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Weinstock: The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist
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He became an Honorary Fellow of his alma mater, LSE, in 1985.
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In 1954 he joined his father-in law's electronics company,
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Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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article on the Weinstock Fund, charitable foundation
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from 1971 to 1973. He was a significant investor in
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He became a Commander of the 587: 521:King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes 321:for services to export and was created a 175:Learn how and when to remove this message 110:Learn how and when to remove this message 899:Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society 889:Alumni of the London School of Economics 807: 787: 777:(Supplement). 5 June 1970. p. 6366. 767: 352:(from 1982), and an Honorary Bencher of 188: 152:of all important aspects of the article. 73:This article includes a list of general 884:English people of Polish-Jewish descent 837:Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain 2001 741: 605: 360:of Italy in 1991 and an Officer of the 861: 797:(Supplement). 13 June 1980. p. 1. 148:Please consider expanding the lead to 919:British racehorse owners and breeders 233: 959:20th-century British philanthropists 121: 59: 18: 909:20th-century British businesspeople 670:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U39238 537:Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf 297:, whose recordings he chose on the 13: 969:Life peers created by Elizabeth II 264:Radio & Allied Industries Ltd. 79:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 980: 548:Coat of arms of Arnold Weinstock 198:Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock 34:This article has multiple issues. 934:Officers of the Legion of Honour 894:Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge 126: 64: 23: 964:Civil servants in the Admiralty 801: 499:, whose wins included the 1996 368: 140:may be too short to adequately 42:or discuss these issues on the 949:Trustees of the British Museum 914:Jewish British philanthropists 847:(HarperCollinsBusiness, 1998). 817:. 22 July 1980. p. 10391. 781: 761: 742:Brummer, Alex (24 July 2002). 735: 709: 687: 676: 625: 606:Brummer, Alex (24 July 2002). 599: 377:, Weinstock owned a number of 285:(1993–1994), a trustee of the 150:provide an accessible overview 1: 924:Owners of Epsom Derby winners 523:after Weinstock's death) and 432:, a purchased filly, won the 396:. In 1960 they purchased the 223: 384:. He and his father-in-law, 7: 744:"Obituary – Lord Weinstock" 517:Two Thousand Guineas Stakes 428:runner-up Homeric. 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Ravenna Festival
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