Raymond William Pennock, Baron Pennock (16 June 1920 – 23 February 1993) was a British industrialist who served as the President of the Confederation of British Industry between 1980 and 1982. Pennock was educated at Coatham School and

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, of which he became an honorary Fellow in 1979. He served in the Royal Artillery between 1941 and 1946, reaching the rank of captain, and was

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. Pennock was made a knight bachelor in 1978, and was created a

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, as Baron Pennock, of Norton in the

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on 16 July 1982.

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