Sir Alistair Grant FRSE (6 March 1937 – 21 January 2001) was a British

British people

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 businessman.

Career

Alistair Grant was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire. He was chief executive of Argyll Group from 1986 to 1998 and governor of the Bank of Scotland

Bank of Scotland

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 from 1998 to 1999 when he was forced to resign due to ill-health, and died aged 63.

He was also chairman of Scottish & Newcastle

Scottish & Newcastle

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 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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. He was knighted in 1992.