Mark Norman (banker)

Mark Richard Norman CBE (3 April 1910 – 6 December 1994) was an English banker from the Norman family. He was a former managing director of Lazard Brothers, the merchant bankers and chairman of Gallaher, the cigarette manufacturers. When he retired in 1980 the Trust's annual report noted that he had guided its financial affairs "with a flair which approaches genius". Mark Norman was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read history. In 1930 he joined Gallahers, but he later moved to the City in 1932 to join Lazard Brothers, taking posts in London, Paris and Berlin.

Mark Norman (banker)

Mark Richard Norman CBE (3 April 1910 – 6 December 1994) was an English banker from the Norman family. He was a former managing director of Lazard Brothers, the merchant bankers and chairman of Gallaher, the cigarette manufacturers. When he retired in 1980 the Trust's annual report noted that he had guided its financial affairs "with a flair which approaches genius". Mark Norman was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read history. In 1930 he joined Gallahers, but he later moved to the City in 1932 to join Lazard Brothers, taking posts in London, Paris and Berlin.