Desmond Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield

Desmond Barel Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield (17 May 1913 - 6 December 1993) was a British accountant and trade union adviser.[1]

Born in Birmingham, Hirshfield was educated at eight schools, including the City of London School.[1] He was a chartered accountant, and was investment advisor to the Trade Union Congress. He was the founder and Chairman of the Trades Union Unit Trust Managers Ltd. from 1961 to 1983.[1] He was President of the accounting firm Horwath & Horwath International between 1977 and 84, and its International President from 1984 to 1986.[2]

On August 30 1967, Hirshfield was created a life peer, as Baron Hirshfield, of Holborn in Greater London.[3]

Coat of arms of Desmond Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield

Crest On a mount Vert a demi-lion guardant and a demi-hart at gaze Proper supporting between them a balance Argent. Escutcheon Azure a menorah between two flaunches Or on each an oak leaf Vert charged with a bezant on a chief Or a dexter hand apaume couped at the wrist articulated of steel Proper representing the hand of an automatom between two cog-wheels Gules each charged with a human heart Argent. Supporters Dexter a lion rampant guardant Proper crowned with an eastern crown Or, sinister a hart at gaze Proper gorged with an eastern crown Or, the whole on a grassy mount with two madonna lilies slipped and leaved Proper. Motto Come Let Us Reason Together [4]

References

1. Rubinstein, William D. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 429. ISBN 9781403939104.
2. Bodlender, J. A. (30 December 1993). "Obituary: Lord Hirshfield". The Independent.
3. "No. 44398". The London Gazette. 31 August 1967. p. 9546.
4. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

• Godfrey Gideon; James Callaghan intro. Labour's Visionary: Lord Hirshfield (Richard Cohen, 1998)