Leslie Murphy (businessman)
Sir Leslie Frederick Murphy was a British businessman who became chairman of the National Enterprise Board.Career
Educated at Southall Grammar School and Birkbeck College, Murphy joined the Civil Service during the Second World War. After leaving the civil service he became chairman of Mobil Supply and Mobil Shipping in 1955, Finance Director of the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1959 and a corporate finance specialist at Schroders in 1964. He was ultimately promoted to Deputy Chairman at Schroders in 1972. He went on to be Chairman of the National Enterprise Board in 1977 but resigned with his entire board when Sir Keith Joseph decided to remove its responsibility for the government's holding in Rolls-Royce in 1979.
He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1978 New Year Honours and died in September 2007.Family
He married Marjorie Cowell in 1940; they had a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife, he married Dorothy Murray in 1993.
