Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth
Heyworth was chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries[2] and of Unilever,[3] a company for which he worked for 48 years until his retirement in 1960.[5] [6] In 1951 he was appointed to a commission, led by Sir Lionel Cohen, set up to look into the issue of taxation on income and profits.[7] Having been Knighted in 1948,[8] on 25 July 1955 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Heyworth, of Oxton in the County Palatine of Chester,[9] in recognition of his "... public services".[3] He was the lead author of The Heyworth Report (1965), which led to the establishment of the Social Science Research Council.[10] Lord Heyworth died in June 1974, aged 79.