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77: 36: 139: 201: 281:, 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. 550:). 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. 375:
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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