Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth

Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth (18 October 1894 – 15 June 1974), was a British businessman and public servant.

At the outbreak of World War I, he was employed as an accountant in Toronto, Canada. He served as a lieutenant in 134th Battalion, CEF 1916/1919. He was wounded in action in France on 14 July, 1918.^[1]

Heyworth was chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries^[2] and of Unilever,^[3] a company for which he worked for 48 years until his retirement in 1960.^[4] He was also a member of the National Coal Board and the London Passenger Transport Board.^[5][6] In 1951, he was appointed to a commission, led by Sir Lionel Cohen, set up to look into the issue of taxation on income and profits.^[7] Having been knighted in 1948,^[8] he was raised to the peerage as Baron Heyworth on 25 July, 1955, of Oxton in the County Palatine of Chester,^[9] in recognition of his "... public services".^[3] He was the lead author of The Heyworth Report (1965), which led to the establishment of the Social Science Research Council.^[2] He was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1949 to 1950.^[10]

Lord Heyworth died in June 1974, aged 79.^[11] The barony died with him.^{[citation needed]}