{{Short description|20th-century English businessman}} {{about||the Australian cricketer|Ernest Harrison (cricketer)|the English journalist, author and judoka|Ernest John Harrison}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Sir Ernest Harrison | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|HonFREng}} | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 11 May 1926 | birth_place = Hackney, east London, England | birth_name = Ernest Thomas Harrison | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2009|2|16|1926|5|11}} | death_place = Surrey, England | death_cause = | occupation = Chair of Racal }} '''Sir Ernest Thomas Harrison''' (11 May 1926 – 16 February 2009)<ref name="TimesObit">{{cite news|date=18 February 2009|title=Sir Ernest Harrison: chairman of Racal Electronics|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5761640.ece|accessdate=29 June 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> was an English businessman. He was best known as chairman of electronics company Racal and the first chairman of its spun-out mobile telephony division, Vodafone.<ref name="TelgObit">{{cite web|date=22 February 2009|title=Sir Ernest Harrison|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4781816/Sir-Ernest-Harrison.html|accessdate=29 June 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref><ref name="GuardObit">{{cite news|last=Brewerton|first=David|date=22 February 2009|title=Sir Ernest Harrison|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/feb/20/ernest-harrison-obituary|accessdate=29 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="Salbu">{{cite web|url=http://salbu.co.za/salbu/eth.html|title=Britain's High Priest of Shareholder Value|author=Jim Levi|publisher=salbu.co.za|accessdate=29 June 2010}}</ref> He was also a fan and major shareholder of Arsenal Football Club. <ref name="IndShaed">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/kroenke-increases-arsenal-stake-1813769.html|title=Kroenke increases Arsenal stake|accessdate=28 September 2023|work=The Independent|date=3 November 2009 }}</ref> In 1997 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.<ref>{{cite journal |title=List of Fellows 2001/2002 |journal=RAEng |page=11}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4781816/Sir-Ernest-Harrison.html Obituary at The Daily Telegraph]
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