Eldred Frederick Hitchcock
Sir Eldred Frederick Hitchcock (1887–1959), businessman
1887 born on 9 December in Islington, London, son of Eldred Hitchcock, superintendent of Dr Barnardo's Home, Epsom, and his wife, Louisa Naomi Orchard.
Educated at Burford grammar school
1910 Diploma in economics from the University of Oxford.
1912 Became a resident at Toynbee Hall, also serving as secretary
1915 When the warden instigated the move to Poplar, Hitchcock remained at Whitechapel, where he supervised educational and institutional activities, placing particular emphasis upon courses of Jewish interest.
1915 Married Ethel May (Patricia) Cooper (d. 1956), daughter of New Zealand sheep farmer Adolphus Frederick William Lorie and widow of a Ceylon tea planter. They had two children.
1915 Member of the council of the Universities' Settlement Association (to 1924).
1917 When the Poplar project failed, Hitchcock assumed the role of acting warden. He oversaw the reinvigoration of Toynbee Hall
WWI War Office statistician; he became assistant director of raw materials and finally deputy director of wool textile production.
1920 CBE and other orders from foreign governments
1919 resigned from Toynbee Hall.
1926 Invested in the sisal firm which became Bird and Co. (Africa) Ltd.
1937 settled in Tanganyika
1939 managing director of the company's sisal estates in Tanganyika
1950 chairman of the company and had influential positions in the sisal industry
1955 knighted
1959 died in Tanga, Tanganyika, of a heart attack, on 6 April.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography, ODNB