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John Welsby

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John Kay Welsby, CBE[1] (26 May 1938 – 4 October 2021) was Chief Executive of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1998; and its Chairman from 1995 to 1999.[2]

Welsby was educated at Heywood Grammar School, the University of Exeter and the University of London. He was in the Government Economic Service from 1966 to 1981 when he joined the British Railways Board. He was appointed CBE in the 1990 Birthday Honours and made a Freeman of the City of London in 1992.[3]

He died from cancer on 4 October 2021, at the age of 83.[4]

Business positions
Preceded by Chairman of the
British Railways Board

1995–1999
Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ Independent Newspaper (UK)
  3. ^ ‘WELSBY, John Kay’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Nov 2014 accessed 24 March 2015
  4. ^ John Welsby obituary