Vincent Caillard (financier)

Sir Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard (23 October 1856 – 18 March 1930) was a British Army officer, financier and municipal politician.[1][2] He served as President of the Ottoman Public Debt Council and the Financial Director of Vickers. He was also a member of Joseph Chamberlain's Tariff Commission and a county alderman on the London County Council for the Municipal Reform Party.

He was President of the Federation of British Industries in 1919.

A close associate of Sir Basil Zaharoff, Caillard played a key role in making Zaharoff's services available to H. H. Asquith and David Lloyd George as an agent of influence in the Levant.[3]

References
  1. Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Caillard, Sir Vincent Henry Penalver". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Sir Vincent Caillard". The Times. 20 March 1930. p. 10.
  3. Maiolo, Joseph; Insall, Tony (December 2012). "Sir Basil Zaharoff and Sir Vincent Caillard as Instruments of British Policy towards Greece and the Ottoman Empire during the Asquith and Lloyd George Administrations, 1915–8". The International History Review. 34 (4): 819–839. doi:10.1080/07075332.2012.690200. JSTOR 24701359. S2CID 154352381 – via JSTOR.
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