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Graham Hearne

Graham Hearne, English lawyer and businessman
Sir Graham Hearne CBE (born 23 Nov. 1937)

is a British businessman who was chairman of Enterprise Oil from 1991 until 2002, having joined Enterprise as chief executive in 1984.He practiced as a solicitor at Pinsent & Co and at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York. He served with the Industrial Reorganisation Congress before moving on to N M Rothschild & Sons, where he remained a non-executive director until June 2010. He was High Sheriff of Greater London in 1995-96.

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Events on 1937

  • 23Jan

    Leon Trotsky

    The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • 21Feb

    Spanish Civil War

    The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 12May

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • 27May

    Golden Gate Bridge

    In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  • 22Jul

    Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

    New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.