Mr. Ronalg Collet Norman, the new Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation is no newcomer tothe affairs of that important institution. He has been Governor and Vice-Chairman since 1993 and he is therefore fully entitled to an appoint ment which has now twice fallen Vacant during his tenure of the next jest_post. A younger brother of the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Ronald Norman was educated ai Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, trid entered into public lite as Assist fant Private Secretary to. the late George Wyndham, that brilliant Conservative statesman whose career was li too brief for the full expression of his capacity, remarkable" though fs achievement had been. For. five years Mr. Norman was Private Secretary to the late Earl of Halsbury and he subsequently entered muni-ipal polities. For twenty-seven years hho served on the London County Council. He was a Member from 1907 to 1922, and Alderman from 1922 to 1034, He was a capable Chairman in the dificult year of 1918-19. He ig Vice-Chairman of the National Council of Social Service and a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission. The British Broadcasting Cor-oration is a public organization of Fecent birth, It has acquired great Weight in the nation's affairs. Mr. Norman is, therefore, to be warmly congratulated and, judging from his ast services and qualifications, the Corporction can claim the same attention.
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