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Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock (29 July 1924 – 23 July 2002) was an English businessman, who was the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Weinstock is best known for building GEC, a major conglomerate, which at the time of his retirement had become one of the UK's largest companies. [1]

Weinstock took his degree at the London School of Economics (of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1985). His degree was in statistics, and he was later a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

He was a junior administrative officer in the Admiralty, 1944-47. He engaged in finance and property development with a group of private companies, 1947-54. He was Managing Director, Radio & Allied Industries Ltd (later Radio & Allied Holdings Ltd), 1954-63.

He was a director of GEC, 1961-3, the Managing Director, 1963-96, then Chairman Emeritus. He was a director of Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd, 1971-73.

Apart from his career, he was Vice-President of the Friends of the Ravenna Festival, 1993-94. He was a trustee of the British Museum, 1985-96, and of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Foundation Fund, 1984-92. A member of the Jockey Club, Lord Weinstock owned Troy, winner of the 1979 Epsom Derby in partnership with his father-in-law Sir Michael Sobell, and Pilsudski whose wins included the 1996 Grosser Preis von Baden and Breeders' Cup Turf plus the 1997 Japan Cup.

Lord Weinstock received many honours. He was knighted in 1970 and made a Life peer as Baron Weinstock, of Bowden in the County of Wiltshire in 1980. Other honours were:

• Honorary Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1982.
• Honorary Bencher, Gray's Inn, 1982.
• Hon. DSc: Salford, 1975; Aston, 1976; Bath, 1978; Reading, 1978; Ulster, 1987.
• Hon. LLD: Leeds, 1978; Wales, 1985; Keele, 1997
• Hon. DTech Loughborough, 1981; DUniv Anglia Poly., 1994; Hon. DEconSc London, 1997.
• Commendatore, Ordine al Merito (Italy), 1991
• Officier, Légion d'Honneur (France), 1992.

• Who's Who 2001
• Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain 2001
• Alex Brummer, Weinstock: The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist (HarperCollinsBusiness, 1998).

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