Harold Wincott

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Harold Wincott CBE (13 September, 1906 - 5 March, 1969) was a British economist and journalist.

Wincott edited the Investor's Chronicle for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times. He was awarded a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank. According to one contemporary, Wincott had an "enormous influence on City thinking"; it was Wincott who invented the character Solomon Binding in his column as a joke on the numerous "solemn and binding" pledges made at TUC Conferences.[1]

The Conservative politician John Biffen has claimed: "If I had a mentor, it was probably Harold Wincott".[2]

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  1. ^ Richard Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931 - 1983 (HarperCollins, 1995), p. 185.
  2. ^ Ibid, p. 169.
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