Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre (30 August 1916 – 1 September 2004) was a British businessman and banker. Keith was invested as a Knight in 1969 and was created a life peer as Baron Keith of Castleacre, of Swaffham in the County of Norfolk on 6 February 1980. "We (Rolls-Royce) added a zero to his stature; he used to think £5 million a lot of money, but after a few weeks on the RB211 he came to understand that £50 million is peanuts." – Stanley Hooker.
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| - Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre Kt (* 30. August 1916 in Castle Acre, Norfolk; † 1. September 2004 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk) war ein britischer Unternehmer und Merchant Banker, der 1980 als Life Peer aufgrund des Life Peerages Act 1958 Mitglied des House of Lords wurde. Keith gehörte neben Personen wie Siegmund G. Warburg drei Jahrzehnte lang zu den dynamischsten und einflussreichsten Merchant Bankers der City of London. (de)
- Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre (30 August 1916 – 1 September 2004) was a British businessman and banker. Keith was invested as a Knight in 1969 and was created a life peer as Baron Keith of Castleacre, of Swaffham in the County of Norfolk on 6 February 1980. "We (Rolls-Royce) added a zero to his stature; he used to think £5 million a lot of money, but after a few weeks on the RB211 he came to understand that £50 million is peanuts." – Stanley Hooker. (en)
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| - Dexter: a Foreman proper his Overall Argent charged on the breast pocket with a Monogram composed of the Letters RR superimposed one above the other with above the word Rolls and beneath the word Royce all in capital letters Gules the Collar Azure holding in his outer hand a Worksheet in its Folder proper; Sinister: a Farmer in Plus-Four Suit and Cap of Brown Tweed with heather mixture Stockings and Brown Boots holding in the crook of his outer arms a Shot Gun proper (en)
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| - Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre Kt (* 30. August 1916 in Castle Acre, Norfolk; † 1. September 2004 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk) war ein britischer Unternehmer und Merchant Banker, der 1980 als Life Peer aufgrund des Life Peerages Act 1958 Mitglied des House of Lords wurde. Keith gehörte neben Personen wie Siegmund G. Warburg drei Jahrzehnte lang zu den dynamischsten und einflussreichsten Merchant Bankers der City of London. (de)
- Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre (30 August 1916 – 1 September 2004) was a British businessman and banker. Keith was invested as a Knight in 1969 and was created a life peer as Baron Keith of Castleacre, of Swaffham in the County of Norfolk on 6 February 1980. He presided over the mergers that formed the British merchant bank Hill Samuel, and also chaired Rolls-Royce after the company's receivership and subsequent nationalisation in 1971, helping to organise the recovery of the RB211 project. After retiring from those chairmanships in 1980 he was chairman of STC and of Beecham. "We (Rolls-Royce) added a zero to his stature; he used to think £5 million a lot of money, but after a few weeks on the RB211 he came to understand that £50 million is peanuts." – Stanley Hooker. (en)
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