Paul Reilly
Sir Paul Reilly
1973 Bio Note [1]
Sir Paul Reilly, MA, Director, the Design Council, was born in Liverpool in 1912. Educated at Winchester and at Hertford College, Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics and completed a business administration course at London University.
He was Sales Manager for Venesta Ltd, plywood importers and merchants in 1935 and moved to the News Chronicle as a leader page and features editor later that year.
He saw war service in the RAC and then in the RNVR as a Lt Cmdr.
He joined the National Trade Press Ltd in 1946 as Editor, British Plastics Encyclopaedia, leaving in 1948 to become Chief Information Officer, ColD, Chief Industrial Officer in 1955, Deputy Director in 1957 and Director ColD (now the Design Council) in 1960. He was knighted in 1967.