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= George A. S. Nairn =

George Alexander Stokes Nairn (1889 - 13 July 1974) was the president of Lever Brothers Limited from 1940 to 1945 and chairman of the same company from 1945 until his retirement in 1954. He is also best known for his numerous associations with several public, educational and church bodies.

Personal life
George A. S. Nairn was born in Liverpool in 1889, where he attended Liverpool College. He served in the Second World War as a Major in the 9th Bn. The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment when he was in his early twenties. In 1925 he married Doreen Watson and they had two children.

He died in Bromborough in 1974 at the age of 84. He was remembered at Port Sunlight as a sympathetic and popular chairman and one of Merseyside’s most distinguished industrialists.

Career
Nairn started his career at Lever Brothers as a personal assistant to James Lever Ferguson in 1919. The same year he was appointed to the board of William Gossage and Sons of Widnes, a Lever subsidiary, before becoming its Chairman in 1932. In 1934 he joined the Executive Committee at Unilever House. Six years later, on the outbreak of the Second World War, he went to Rotterdam before moving to the city of Toronto, Canada, as President of Lever Brothers Limited (a Canadian subsidiary of Lever Brothers Company). He remained there until 1944, and in 1945 became a member of Unilever UK Food Executive.

Nairn then served as Chairman of Lever Brothers Limited between 1947 until his retirement in 1954, helping to put Port Sunlight back on the map after the Second World War. Nairn was also associated with many public, educational and church bodies. At the time of his retirement from Unilever, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Liverpool Collegiate School.