Eton College University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
Occupation(s)
Company director and aviator
Board member of
North Central Wagon Company (1946–1964) British European Airways (1959–1968) Radio Rentals (−1964) Prudential Assurance (1963–1964) British Overseas Airways Corporation (1964–1968)
Spouse(s)
Rhona, Lady Guthrie
Children
Malcolm Connop Guthrie
Parent
Connop Guthrie
Sir Giles Connop McEachern Guthrie, 2nd Baronet, OBE, DSC, JP (21 March 1916 – 31 December 1979) was an English aviator, merchant banker and later, an airline industry executive, serving as the chairman and chief executive of the state owned airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).
Sir Giles Connop McEachern Guthrie, 2nd Baronet, OBE, DSC, JP (21 March 1916 – 31 December 1979) was an English aviator, merchant banker and later, an...
tail-fin modifications which Boeing made available to all 707 users.) Sir GilesGuthrie, who took charge of BOAC in 1964, preferred Boeing aircraft for economic...
suitably scathing. MacRobertson Air Race winner C.W.A. Scott aided by GilesGuthrie won the race in a Percival Vega Gull, but it was a hollow victory, as...
not a sponsor of indigenous aircraft. BOAC's incoming chairman Sir GilesGuthrie was also anti-VC10; he proposed that the Vickers programme be shelved...
resignation; Slattery commented in 1964 that he had effectively been sacked. GilesGuthrie, a respected aviator, merchant banker and director of British European...
September 1938 Polish National Archives photo of Lockheed 14 with pilot GilesGuthrie Polish national Archives photo of Lockheed 14 (G-AFKE) at Warsaw, 1939...
C. W. A. Scott, (Black's co-pilot in the 1934 MacRoberts Race) and GilesGuthrie. The following is a transcript of Incidents Report at Speke Airport:...
John Guthrie, Bishop of Moray became the eleventh chief of Clan Guthrie. Guthrie had been ordained at Perth and had become minister of St Giles in Edinburgh...
resignation; Slattery commented in 1964 that he had effectively been sacked. GilesGuthrie, a respected aviator, merchant banker and director of British European...
Thomas Guthrie FRSE (12 July 1803 – 24 February 1873) was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire)...
international entrants of whom notable entrants were C. W. A. Scott and GilesGuthrie who came in 5th place. June 9 – The Nicaraguan Air Force is formed as...
321 km) course. The 1938 King's Cup was a 1,012 mi (1,629 km) event and GilesGuthrie in his red mostly unmodified E2H G-AEKL placed 2nd. G-AEKL was rebuilt...
Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War. October 1 – C. W. A. Scott and GilesGuthrie win the Schlesinger Race from England to Johannesburg, South Africa...
Schlesinger Race from England to Johannesburg, South Africa. C.W.A. Scott and GilesGuthrie flying Vega Gull G-AEKE were the only finishers, landing at Rand Airport...
music, recipient of the Bharat Ratna, in Dumraon, India (d. 2006); GilesGuthrie, British aviator, chairman and CEO of British Overseas Airways Corporation...
a prize of £1000 and a certificate. 1914-1965 Guthrie Lecture initiated to remember Frederick Guthrie, founder of the Physical Society (which merged...
Year Honours. Guthrie died on 28 September 1945. He was succeeded to the baronetcy by his son, Giles Connop McEachern Guthrie. Guthrie baronets https://www...
machines included C.W.A. Scott, Jim and Amy Mollison, Charles Gardner and GilesGuthrie. Many came to Percival to have their machines specially built and modified...
Grundy 12,329 503 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area Guthrie 10,623 591 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area...
in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted...
Jam Band The Gentrys George Jones Georgie Fame Gerry & The Pacemakers Giles, Giles and Fripp The Girls Gladys Knight & the Pips Glass Harp (band) Glen Campbell...
her role in that play, Deyn was cast to play the main female role, Chris Guthrie, in a film adaptation of the Scottish-set novel Sunset Song. In 2013, Deyn...
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