Captain Sir Robert Stuart Hilton (1871-1943) OBE, Managing director of the United Steel Companies
1871 Born in Wigan
Mining engineer and colliery manager in Lancashire
1911 At the age of 41, he became manager of the Birmingham Corporation Gas Department
WWI Seconded from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment to a Government post to organize the country's gas undertakings for the manufacture of toluol and high explosives.
1919 Captain Hilton, as he was always then known, was appointed managing director of Metropolitan-Vickers
1927 Relinquished the position of managing director to become deputy chairman of M-V
1939 Appointed deputy chairman of United Steel Companies
1943 Died in Shipston on Stour
1943 Obituary [1]
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