Harold Atcherley
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Sir Harold Winter Atcherley (born 30 August 1918) of Long Melford, Suffolk, is a former public figure and arts administrator in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Education
Atcherley was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Cambridge University.
[edit] Appointments
- Chairman, Armed Forces' Pay Review Body (1971-1982)
- Chairman, Police Negotiating Board (1983-1986)
- Chairman, Aldeburgh Festival
- Chairman, Toynbee Hall, (1985-1990)
- Chairman, Suffolk and North Essex Branch, European Movement
[edit] Publications
- The War Diary of Harold Atcherley, illustrated by Ronald Searle
[edit] Trivia
- In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre, Atcherson ascribed the fundamental causes of the disaster to the non-observation by the British government of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
- On 6 September 2001, a letter from Atcherley was published in London's The Independent newspaper, headed Reports of my death... and enquiring why for two years running the newspaper had failed to include his name in its Today's Birthdays column. He suggested:
- "It occurs to me that it may be because I am dead without being aware of it. This is perhaps too fanciful, if only because, as far as I am aware, my name has not yet appeared in your Deaths section... My own hunch is that my supreme unimportance may have something to do with it."
- Atcherley also has a house in Bleichheim, Germany.
