Harold Edward WincottCBE(13 September 1906 – 5 March 1969) was a British economist and journalist.
Early life
editHarold Wincott was born in north London, where his father ran a small family business of heraldic engravers.[1]He went toHornsey County School,leaving at 16.[1]
Career
editWincott edited theInvestors Chroniclefor twenty-one years and was a columnist for theFinancial Times.He was appointed a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for theInstitute of Economic Affairs,a free-market think-tank based inWestminster,London.
Legacy
editAccording to one contemporary, Wincott had an "enormous influence onCitythinking "; it was Wincott who invented the characterSolomon Bindingin his column as a joke on the numerous "solemn and binding" pledges made atTUCConferences.[2]TheConservativepoliticianJohn Biffenhas claimed: "If I had a mentor, it was probably Harold Wincott".[3]
Wincott Foundation
editThe Wincott Foundation was established in 1970 in honour of Harold Wincott's achievements, with the purpose of supporting and encouraging high quality economic, financial, and business journalism. The Foundation sponsors annual awards for economic, financial, and business journalism in the UK, and provides fellowships and scholarships to journalists.
Bibliography
edit- The Stock Exchange(1946)
- Beginners Please(1961)
- The business of capitalism: A selection of unconventional essays on economic problems of the 1960s(1968)
References
edit- ^abGeoffrey E. Wood (27 July 2016).Explorations in Economic Liberalism: The Wincott Lectures.Springer. pp. ix–xi.ISBN978-1-349-24967-1.
- ^Richard Cockett,Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931 - 1983(HarperCollins, 1995), p. 185.
- ^Cockett, p. 169.
Further reading
edit- Kieran Heinemann:Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987,PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2017, ch. 3.