Obituary: Sir Alexander Ross

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 20, 1994| Author: R. C. WHEELER-BENNETT | Copyright information

Alexander Ross, banker: born Auckland 2 September 1907; Director, United Dominions Trust Ltd 1955-62, Vice-Chairman 1962-63, Chairman 1963-74; Deputy Chairman, Eagle Star Insurance Company Ltd 1963-83; Chairman, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd 1970-75; Kt 1971; married 1933 Nora Burgess (died 1974; two sons, two daughters), 1975 Cynthia Barton; died Tweed Heads West, New South Wales 10 April 1994.

ALEXANDER ROSS left his native New Zealand in 1955 to come to England at the...

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