Harold Wincott CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (13 September 1906 - 5 March 1969) was a British

United Kingdom

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 economist and journalist.

Wincott edited the Investors Chronicle

Investors Chronicle

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for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times

Financial Times

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. He was awarded a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs

Institute of Economic Affairs

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, a free-market think-tank. According to one contemporary, Wincott had an "enormous influence on City

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 thinking"; it was Wincott who invented the character Solomon Binding in his column as a joke on the numerous "solemn and binding" pledges made at TUC

Trades Union Congress

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 Conferences.

The Conservative

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 politician John Biffen

John Biffen

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 has claimed: "If I had a mentor, it was probably Harold Wincott".

The Harold Wincott Press Awards were established in 1970 by the Wincott Foundation in honor of Wincott.