The Earl Cairns | |
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Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
In office 21 March 1989 –11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 5th Earl Cairns |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Simon Dallas Cairns 27 May 1939 |
Political party | Crossbencher |
Occupation | Businessman,politician,peer |
Simon Dallas Cairns,6th Earl Cairns, CVO , CBE (born 27 May 1939),styled Viscount Garmoyle between 1946 and 1989,is a British businessman.
Cairns is the son of Rear-Admiral David Cairns,5th Earl Cairns,and Barbara Jeanne Harrison Burgess. [1] He was educated at Ludgrove,Eton and Trinity College,Cambridge. [2] [3]
Cairns was Managing Director of S. G. Warburg &Co. between 1979 and 1985,of Mercury Securities plc between 1981 and 1984,Chairman of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) between 1981 and 1992,Vice-Chairman of Mercury Securities plc between 1984 and 1986,and a Director of S. G. Warburg &Co. between 1985 and 1995. [3] He succeeded his father in the earldom on 21 March 1989. [4] He was Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall between 1990 and 2000. [3] He was Chief Executive of S. G. Warburg &Co. between 1991 and 1995. He was Chairman of CDC Group plc from 1995. [3]
He was chairman of BAT plc between 1995 and 1998,and was Vice-Chairman of Zurich Allied AG and Zurich Financial Services between 1998 and 2000. He was Chairman of Allied Zurich between 1998 and 2000. [3]
He was appointed Chairman of the African telecommunications company Celtel in October 2007 and was a board member of the charity The Mo Ibrahim Foundation until 2016,alongside Mary Robinson and Kofi Annan. [5]
He was invested as a Commander,Order of the British Empire (CBE),in 1992. Cairns was invested as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) in 2000. [3]
Lord Cairns married Amanda Mary Heathcoat-Amory,daughter of Maj. Edward Fitzgerald Heathcoat-Amory (a son of Maj. Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory) and Sonia Myrtle Denison,on 4 February 1964. [3] They have three sons:
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