Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne

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Gordon William Humphreys Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, KG, MBE, TD, PC, DL (born 25 November 1915) is a banker, former lawyer, and former Governor of the Bank of England.

Richardson was born to John Robert and Nellie Richardson, and was educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1946, becoming a member of the Bar Council between 1951 and 1955, but abandoned law for a career in the City. He became a director of J. Henry Schroder & Co in 1957, and was later chairman between 1962 and 1973. He was appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 1973, and remained in that position until 1983. Shortly after this, he was created a life peer as Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, of Duntisbourne in the County of Gloucestershire.

Richardson has been a member of the Morgan Stanley advisory board since 1984. He was a member of the Group of Thirty between 1985 and 1991, and has since been their Honorary Chair.

[edit] Honours

Member of the Order of the British Empire, Military Division, 1944.

Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 1976.

Territorial Decoration, 1979.

Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1983.

Elevated to the peerage as Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, Life Baron 1983.