Matthew Alistair Grant

Matthew Alistair Grant

Sir Alistair Grant FRSE (6 March 1937 – 21 January 2001) was a British businessman.

Career

Alistair Grant was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire. He was chief executive of Argyll Group from 1986 to 1998 and governor of the Bank of Scotland from 1998 to 1999 when he was forced to resign due to ill-health, and died aged 63.

He was also chairman of Scottish & Newcastle and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was knighted in 1992.


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