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He retires in 1961 (chairmanship taken over by his sister Mary Dunhill) and dies ten years later. | He retires in 1961 (chairmanship taken over by his sister Mary Dunhill) and dies ten years later. | ||
<blockquote><q>My brother, Alfred Henry, who had become President of the Group on my appointment as chairman, died in 1971. Having worked in the firm for almost sixty years, he had been chairman for thirty-three of them and, in my view, had done more to promote the original business, as Father and Uncle Bertie had known it, than any other man in its history. When he joined the staff at the shop in 1912 the profits were £1000 per annum. By the time of his death they were over £1 million. The fact that they had risen to over £4 million by the time my nephew, Richard, succeeded me as chairman in 1976 is an indication of our growth rate in the early ’seventies, especially in the foreign markets I have mentioned. The business to-day is not only larger than it was during Alfred Henry’s time; it is differently managed and somewhat different in character. I therefore regard the end of my brother’s career as a kind of watershed which, historically, separates the earlier business from what it has become.</q> Dunhill, Mary. Our Family Business (The Bodley Head - Great Britain, 1979).</blockquote> | |||
Alfred Henry Dunhill (Aged 75 years.), president of the Dunhill Tobacco group, and a leading figure In the British tobacco industry, died today at Hove, Sussex. He was 75 years old. | Alfred Henry Dunhill (Aged 75 years.), president of the Dunhill Tobacco group, and a leading figure In the British tobacco industry, died today at Hove, Sussex. He was 75 years old. | ||
He is survived by his widow, Phyllis, and a sister who is chairman of the company. London, July 8 — published in The New York Time - July 9, 1971. | He is survived by his widow, Phyllis, and a sister who is chairman of the company. London, July 8 — published in The New York Time - July 9, 1971. | ||