Insurance chief dies

He held most of the top positions in the market. Though one of the very few people to serve as president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (1989-90) and as chairman of the Association of British Insurers (1993-95), it was his long service with Norwich Union that left the greatest legacy. He started with Scottish Union as an office boy at 16 on leaving Wyggeston Grammar School in Leicester and, apart from National Service in the Royal Air Force, served the company for almost fifty years, rising to general manager in 1984 and chief executive in 1989. His key achievement (and his most...