Gordon Samuel Nott (1899-1988) of Lee Beesley and of George Nott Industries
Born at Stratford-on-Avon the son of Samuel Nott, a Wholesale Ironmonger, and his wife Emily Freeman Loach
1925 Married at Rugby to Catherine Ruth Gladys Beazley-Long
1939 Residing at 71 Shakespeare Street, Coventry, Gordon S. Nott (born 1899), Electrical Engineer. With Cyril W. Nott (born 1902) and Eva Nott (born 1903).[1]
1957 'Mr. G. S. Nott, managing director of the Lee Beesley group of electrical and mechanical engineers, Coventry, has been appointed chairman of the board of Veritys Ltd. the Birmingham manufacturing engineers which was established in 1821. The present chairman, Mr. H. T. B. Wilde, who is 70, has decided not to seek re-election to the board, but will act as deputy chairman until the annual meeting. The joint managing directors of Veritys, Mr. R. S. Blackledge and Mr. A. W. Hiley, have placed their resignations at the disposal of Mr. Nott, who will thus be in control of the proposed re-organisation of the company. Mr. Nott, who is 55, lives at The Elms, Tile Hill. He joined Lee Beesley in 1923 as an electrical engineering student when there were only five employees. He became managing director - five years ago. He has been responsible for the expansion and development of the company, which has operating centres at Birmingham. Gloucester. Swansea. Liverpool and London.'[2]
1957 'After two months as chairman of Veritys, Ltd., the Birmingham electrical engineers, Mr. G. S. Nott was voted off the board at an extraordinary general meeting of the company yesterday. At a subsequent board meeting Mr. R. M. Mair, who had been elected a new director with Mr. J. D. Shepard at the general meeting, was elected chairman. Mr. Mair, described as chairman of the Veritys Stockholders' Committee, is a director of an agricultural merchants at Tonbridge. A company official said that after the removal of Mr. Nott from the board. four other directors resigned.'[3]
Chairman of S.M.F. Holdings Ltd and Monument Securities.
1961 Gordon S. Nott is Chairman of George Nott Industries.[4]
1962 'The firm of Townsend Bros is a subsidiary of George Nott Industries Ltd whose managing director Mr. G. S. Nott, the Coventry businessman'[5]
1965 Accident. 'Three youths - the riders of two scooters and a pillion passenger - were killed instantly last night when their machines were in collision with a large saloon car in Tile Hill Lane, Coventry. The dead youths were David Baxter, aged 16, of 26, Coleman Street, Tile Hill; Peter Anthony Brookes. aged 16, of 76, Bushbery Avenue, Tile Hill; and Anthony Roland Espley, aged 17, of 22, Needlers End Lane, Balsall Common. Their machines were in collision with a Bentley car driven by Mr. Gordon Samuel Nott, chairman of George Nott Industries and of the Coventry-based Townsend Bros. cross-Channel car ferry company. The Townsend concern is a subsidiary of Lee Beesley and Co, of which Mr Nott is the managing director'.[6]
1988 Died at Bournemouth