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Paul Chambers (industrialist)

British civil servant and industrialist

Summary

British civil servant and industrialist

Field	Value
name	Sir Stanley Paul Chambers
birth_date	2 April 1904
birth_place	London
death_date	December 1981 (aged 77)
education	City of London School

occupation	Civil servant, industrialist, Chairman of ICI

London School of Economics Sir Stanley Paul Chambers, (2 April 1904 – 23 December 1981) was a British civil servant and industrialist and Chairman of ICI.

He was born in London and educated at the City of London School before going to study economics at the London School of Economics.

After graduating, he entered the Inland Revenue and in 1934 was appointed Income Tax Advisor to the Government of India. He returned to the UK in 1940 to be director of statistics and intelligence in the Inland Revenue. He was then appointed secretary and a commissioner of the board. One of his major tasks during the war was to devise the new PAYE (Pay as You Earn) employee taxation system in use in the UK today. After the war, he served on the Control Commission for Germany for two and a half years.

In 1948, he succeeded Sir William Coates as financial director of Imperial Chemical Industries (now ICI), one of Britain's largest companies. He became deputy chairman in 1952 and was chairman from 1960 to 1968, the first non-scientist to hold the post. He moved from there to be chairman of Royal Insurance.

He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1964 to 1965. The society's Chambers Medal, awarded every three years, is named after him.

He was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1971 to 1977.

He married twice and had two children and a stepchild.

References

(29 December 1981). "Obituary: Sir Paul Chambers". [[The Times]].
(15 October 1959). "PAYE's Deviser". The New Scientist.
(17 November 1967). "Britain: Sirs Paul and Peter".
"Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society.
"Chambers Medal". Royal Statistical Society.

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