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Granet was knighted in 1911 as a [[Knight Bachelor]] and created GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of the British Empire]]) in 1923. |
Granet was knighted in 1911 as a [[Knight Bachelor]] and created GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of the British Empire]]) in 1923. |
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He died at Burleigh Court, near [[Stroud, Gloucestershire]], two days before his 76th birthday, after some five years of ill health. |
He died at Burleigh Court, near [[Stroud, Gloucestershire]], two days before his 76th birthday, after some five years of ill health. |
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Sir Guy Granet | |
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 Sir Guy Granet, circa 1910–1915 | |
| Born | William Guy Granet October 13, 1867 |
| Died | October 11, 1943 (aged 75) Burleigh Court, near Stroud, Gloucestershire |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Rugby School |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Barrister, Railway Manager |
| Known for | General Manager, Midland Railway and Chairman, London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Spouse | Florence Gully |
| Children | 1, Diana |
| Parent | William Augustus Granet |
Sir William Guy Granet, GBE (13 October 1867 – 11 October 1943) trained as a barrister but became a noted railway administrator, first as general manager of the Midland Railway then as a director-general in the War Office.[1]
Biography
He was the second son of William Augustus Granet and was born in Genoa, where his father was a banker. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford (Modern History, 1889) and was called to the bar in 1893 at Lincoln's Inn.
In 1892 he married Florence Gully, daughter of William Court Gully (later Viscount Selby). They had one child, Diana, who married the novelist Denis Mackail.
Granet moved into railway management after holding the post of secretary to the Railway Companies' Association from 1900–1905. He was appointed assistant general manager of the Midland Railway in 1905 and became its general manager the following year, on the resignation of John Mathieson. [2] This was very unusual at that time, when managers almost always rose through the ranks of railway operators. Over the ensuing eight years his organizational skills, and the analytic brain of his appointee as general superintendent, Cecil Walter Paget, effected a revolution in the company's ability to handle its heavy freight traffic expeditiously and profitably.
Having impressed parliamentary committees as an expert witness, it was natural the Granet would be called upon by the government in World War I and he was successively: controller of import restrictions; deputy director of military railways at the War Office; and director-general of movements and railways.
He retained his Midland Railway appointment until 1918, when he resigned and was given a seat on the company's board. At the grouping in 1923 he became deputy chairman of the new London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company and was its chairman 1924–1927. As at the Midland, his appointee, this time Sir Josiah Stamp as President (chairman and chief executive), was crucial in the modernisation of the company's management.
Granet was knighted in 1911 as a Knight Bachelor and created GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire) in 1923. He died at Burleigh Court, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, two days before his 76th birthday, after some five years of ill health.
References
- ^ Shepherd, John; Bagwell, Philip Sidney (1991). On the move: essays in labour and transport history, presented to Philip Bagwell. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 1852850604.
- ^ E. G. Barnes (1969). The Midland main line 1875-1922, London : George Allen and Unwin, ISBN 0-04-385049-9, pp. 223-224
Further reading
- Harold Hartley, 'Granet, Sir (William) Guy', in The dictionary of national biography, 1941-1950, London : OUP, 1959
- 'Sir Guy Granet' [obituary] The Times, 12 October 1943, p. 6e
- 'Granet, Sir (Wm.) Guy' in Who was who, vol.4 : 1941-1950, London : Black, 1950s