William Cash (accountant)

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Sir William Cash, FCA (18 June 1891 – 4 May 1964) was an English accountant and business director.[1]

Biography

The son of William Cash of

MA
).

He succeeded his father as senior partner in the accountancy firm Cash, Stone and Company.

Girls' Public Day School Trust (1948–64),[3] and managed the trust after it had fallen on financially precarious times. He was knighted in 1958 principally for his service to that organisation.[2]

He had also been a member of the Croydon Board of Guardians and Godstone Rural District Council (1916–19) and of the Essex County Council (1925–28), and stood as the Labour candidate for Saffron Walden in the general elections of 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1929.[1]

He was a

lay reader in the Diocese of London and bursar to the Oxford and Bermondsey Mission (1914–19). He married, in 1932, Hilda Mary Napier, who died in 1962; she was the daughter of the Oxford Professor Arthur Napier.[1]

Likenesses

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Cash, Sir William", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b The Times (London), 5 May 1964, p. 15.
  3. ^ For the dates of his chairmanship of the GPDST, see J. Sondheimer and P. R. Boddington, The Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1872-1972: Centenary Review (Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1972), p. 21.