Lex Gold

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 14 December 1940) is a Scottish

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and former

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who was a director of Caledonian MacBrayne . Gold was born in Lanark, and played professional football as a teenager, including an 18-month spell with

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. He was a

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for over thirty years.New appointments for NHS Lanarkshire
Scottish Government news release, 13 March 2002 Gold was chairman of Hibernian until he resigned after the club was relegated in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. In 1998, he was invited to deliver th
Marlow (Scotland) Lecture
to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. Gold was also on the boards of

NHS Lanarkshire NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health care of more than 652,000 people living within the subdivisions of Scotland, council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in Scotland, making it the third largest health board in the countr ...

, Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish

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and the

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in Scotland. Until October 2009 Gold was the

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of the

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References

1940 births Living people Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Association football executives Hibernian F.C. directors and chairmen Rangers F.C. players Scottish men's footballers Chairmen and investors of football clubs in Scotland Footballers from Lanark People from Lanark Sportspeople from South Lanarkshire Men's association football players not categorized by position {{Scotland-footy-bio-stub