Neville Blond

Neville Bond CMG OBE (11 February 1896 - 4 August 1970) was a British industrialist.

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and in Switzerland

Blond had an illegitimate son, by Gertrude Nowell Robinson - John Kenneally VC (1921-2000). In 1927 he married Eileen Rebecca Nahum; they had two sons; Anthony (1928-2008) and Peter (1929-(?)). In 1944 he married secondly Elaine Marks, daughter of Michael Marks.

At the time he died, Blond was chairman of the English Stage Company, and was succeeded in that role by Robin Fox and Oscar Lewenstein jointly.^[1]

Blond was appointed an MBE in 1945 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1950.

Footnotes

↑ Lindsay Anderson, ed. Paul Sutton, Diaries (2004), pp. 249, 505

References

‘BLOND, Neville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 Jan 2013
Anthony Blond Jew Made in England

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