# Ernest Harrison

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{{Short description|20th-century English businessman}}
{{about||the Australian cricketer|Ernest Harrison (cricketer)|the English journalist, author and judoka|Ernest John Harrison}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Sir Ernest Harrison
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|HonFREng}}
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| birth_date  = 11 May 1926
| birth_place = [Hackney](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Hackney), east [London](/source/London), England
| birth_name  = Ernest Thomas Harrison
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=y|2009|2|16|1926|5|11}}
| death_place = [Surrey](/source/Surrey), England
| death_cause = 
| occupation  = Chair of [Racal](/source/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](/source/English_people) [businessman](/source/businessman). He was best known as chairman of electronics company [Racal](/source/Racal) and the first chairman of its spun-out mobile telephony division, [Vodafone](/source/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](/source/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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Category:People from Hackney Central
Category:Fleet Air Arm personnel of World War II
Category:Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Category:English accountants
Category:Racal
Category:British racehorse owners and breeders
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Knights Bachelor
Category:1926 births
Category:2009 deaths
Category:Chairmen of Vodafone
Category:English chief executives
Category:British chairpersons of corporations
Category:Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Category:20th-century English businesspeople

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