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Gent groomed for chairman's role at Glaxo Drugs giant to win 80 per cent of votes on Garnier's controversial pay deal
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SIR CHRISTOPHER GENT, the former chief executive of the mobile
phone giant Vodafone, is expected to join the board of
GlaxoSmithKline as a non-executive director.
This appointment would be a precursor to his taking over as
chairman of the Anglo-American pharmaceutical giant, which has
recently been rocked by criticism of its executive remuneration
policy.
Although agreement on his contract has yet to be reached - and no
announcement is expected at tomorrow's annual meeting - talks are
understood to be well advanced.
The City would welcome his arrival as the heir-apparent to Sir
Christopher ...
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OBITUARY: John Willett
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; ...study the cello. His mother, Aimee - daughter of Thomas Tizard FRS, who served on the Challenger expedition of 1872...later Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy; sister of Sir Henry Tizard, wartime adviser to Winston Churchill and chief scientific...
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; ...Julian Huxley, grandson of "Darwin's bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley, was in the audience and introduced himself...Patrick Blackett, Science Adviser at the Admiralty, and Sir Henry Tizard, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Air Staff, did...
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; ...King of France, 1754; Sir Astley Paston Cooper...novelist, 1869; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Ernst...executed 1305; Sir Thomas Littleton (Lyttelton...ornithologist, 1813; Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist, 1888...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Births: Sir Astley Paston Cooper, surgeon...and novelist, 1869; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Ernst...patriot, executed 1305; Sir Thomas Littleton (Lyttelton...ornithologist, 1813; Philip Henry Gosse, naturalist, 1888...
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