Sir Christophor Laidlaw

Sir Christophor Laidlaw, who died on November 27 aged 88, was a senior executive of BP who went on to be chairman of ICL, Britain’s last home-grown manufacturer of mainframe computers.

Laidlaw became a managing director of British Petroleum in 1972, and was deputy chairman in 1980-81...

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