Charles Garonne Renold

Sir Charles Garonne Renold J.P., LL.D (29 October 1883 – 7 September 1967) was a British engineer and pioneer of management science. Born in Altrincham, England, he was the son of Hans Renold, a Swiss-born engineer and businessman. He became chairman of the company his father started, Renold Chains and Gears in Manchester, which later became Renold Plc. Renold was vice-president of Manchester College of Science and Technology, which was to become UMIST and was then part of the University of Manchester. He was a noted expert in industrial administration, and was knighted in 1948 for services to the cause of good management, and the development of humane and progressive ideals in industry^[1][2]

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From the first he was interested above all in problems of industrial management: he worked throughout his career to raise the level of effectiveness of British industrial managers by the example of his own firm, and by the promotion of management education.^[3]

Renold was educated at Abbotsholme School and Cornell University. He was granted an honorary LL.D from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1960.^[4] He lived in Heaton Mersey, and latterly in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire.^[4]

The Renold Building at the University of Manchester is named in his honour.

References

1. Trevor Boyns, Hans and Charles Renold. "Entrepreneurs in the introduction of scientific management techniques in Britain," Management Decision, 2001, Volume:39, Issue 9, p719 – 728, doi:10.1108/00251740110408737
2. Looking Back – The Renold Building, Unilife, vol 3 issue 8, p20, 2 May 2006
3. Tolley, L.J. and Keeble, S. (1985), "Charles Garonne Renold", in Dictionary of Business Biography, Vol. IV, Butterworth, London, pp. 882–6.
4. RENOLD, Sir Charles Garonne (1883–1967), Who Was Who, J&C Black, 2007