Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu

Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu

Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu KBE CMG (24 September 1889-18 June 1967), was a British-Australian businessman and public servant.

Baillieu was the son of William Baillieu, an Australian politician and financial expert, and his wife Bertha Martha (née Latham). The Baillieu family was of Belgian descent but had earlier lived in England. He was educated at Trinity College, Melbourne University, and then moved to England where he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1914 Baillieu was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. He then served in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches and achieved the rank of Major in the Australian Imperial Forces and temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War he notably served the British Government as Director-General of the British Purchasing Commission in Washington from 1941 to 1942 and as Head of the Raw Materials Mission in Washington and as Representative on the Combined Raw Materials Board from 1942 to 1943.

After the war Baillieu was President of the Federation of British Industries between 1945 and 1947 and Deputy Chairman of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation from 1959 to 1964 and served with the Dunlop Rubber Company as Vice-Chairman from 1945 to 1949, Chairman from 1949 to 1957 and President from 1957 to 1967. He was made an OBE in 1918, a CMG in 1929 and a KBE in 1938 and in 1953 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Baillieu, of Sefton in the Commonwealth of Australia and of Parkwood in the County of Surrey.

Lord Baillieu married Ruby Florence Evelyn, daughter of William Clark, in 1915. They had three sons and a daughter. Lady Baillieu died in 1962. Lord Baillieu survived her by five years and died in June 1967, aged 77. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son William.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]
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