Sir Philip Shelbourne (15 June 1924 – 15 April 1993) was a British lawyer and financier. Shelbourne was educated at

Radley College Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley, is a public school (independent boarding school for boys) near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. The school covers including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, an ...

. He left Radley in 1942 with a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, but served in the

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1943–46 before going up to Christ Church. After graduating in

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he was a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at Harvard Law School 1949–50. As a barrister, Shelbourne specialised in tax law. He gave up the Bar in 1962 to join

NM Rothschild and Sons Rothschild & Co is a multinational investment bank and financial services company, and the flagship of the Rothschild banking group controlled by the French and British branches of the Rothschild family. The banking business of the firm covers th ...

. After leaving Rothschild in 1970 he was chairman and/or chief executive of companies including Samuel Montagu & Co. and subsequently British National Oil Corporation and its successor

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and concurrently chairman of Henry Ansbacher Holdings. Shelbourne was knighted in the

1984 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1984 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countri ...

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