Hugo Cunliffe-Owen
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Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (16 August 1870–14 December 1947) was an English industrialist.
Cunliffe-Owen was the younger son of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen. He was educated at Brighton College and then Clifton College and then went into business in Bristol. He became a director of the British-American Tobacco Company on its formation in 1902, later becoming vice-chairman, and chairman from 1923 until his retirement in 1945. For the last two years of his life he was president of the company.
Cunliffe-Owen worked for the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and for this he was created a Baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours.
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- Obituary, The Times, 18 December 1947
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by New creation |
Baronet (of Bray) 1920–1947 |
Succeeded by Dudley Herbert Cunliffe-Owen |
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