| Creator: |
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| Date of birth: |
1889 |
| Date of death: |
1967 |
| Biography: |
C L Baillieu was born in Kew, on 24 Sept 1889, and educated at Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne CofE Grammar School and Trinity College, University of Melbourne before transferring to Magdalen College, Oxford where he took an MA. He was called to the bar and admitted to the Inner Temple. After distinguished military service in WWI he took up a number of company directorships including Dunlop and several non-ferrous metal companies. During WWII Baillieu acted for the British Government in the USA where he was an executive member of the British Export Council and head of the British Raw Materials Commission and director-general of the British Purchasing Commission. In 1953 he was awarded an hereditary peerage in recognition of this work. Lord Baillieu died suddenly in Melbourne on 19 Jun 1967. |
| Activities/Occupation: |
Company directors, Mining managers |
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