Charles Garonne Renold
Sir Charles Garonne Renold J.P., LL.D (29 October 1883 – 7 September 1967) was a British engineer and pioneer of management science. Born in Altrincham, England, he was the son of Hans Renold, a Swiss-born engineer and businessman. He became chairman of the company his father started. Renold Chains and Gears in Manchester, which later became Renold Plc. Renold was vice-president of Manchester College of Science and Technology, which was to become UMIST and was then part of the University of Manchester. He was a noted expert in industrial administration, and was knighted in 1948 for services to the cause of good management, and the development of humane and progressive ideals in industry[1][2]
[3]From the first he was interested above all in problems of industrial management: he worked throughout his career to raise the level of effectiveness of British industrial managers by the example of his own firm, and by the promotion of management education.[3]
Renold was educated at Abbotsholme School and Cornell University. He was granted an honorary LL.D from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1960.[4] He lived in Heaton Mersey, and latterly in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire.[4]
The Renold Building at the University of Manchester is named in his honour.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Trevor Boyns, Hans and Charles Renold: entrepreneurs in the introduction of scientific management techniques in Britain, Management Decision, 2001, Volume:39, Issue 9, p719 – 728, doi:10.1108/00251740110408737
- ↑ Looking Back – The Renold Building, Unilife, vol 3 issue 8, p20, 2 May 2006
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tolley, L.J. and Keeble, S. (1985), "Charles Garonne Renold", in Dictionary of Business Biography, Vol. IV, Butterworth, London, pp. 882–6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 RENOLD, Sir Charles Garonne (1883–1967), Who Was Who, J&C Black, 2007
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