Francis Leonard Tombs, Baron Tombs (born 17 May 1924) is an English industrialist and politician.
He was educated at Elmore Green School, Walsall, and at the University of London.
Tombs had a distinguished career in industry, particularly in electricity generation.[1] He was chairman of the South of Scotland Electricity Board,[2] the Electricity Council[3] and Rolls-Royce.[4]
Tombs was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1981[5] and became an Honorary Fellow of its successor organisation the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 1991.[6]
He was made a life peer in 1990, as Baron Tombs.[7][8] He was granted a leave of absence in March 2008 which lasted until July 2010.[9][10]
Lord Tombs has written a memoir, entitled Power Politics: Political Encounters in Industry and Engineering