Bertram Nelson

Bertram Nelson CBE (1905–1984) was a senior partner at Lithgow Nelson & Co and as President of the Society of Incorporated Accountants played a leading role in its amalgamation with the ICAEW[1] in 1957. His wide variety of roles reflected his interest in supporting the development of the accountancy profession as well as business, education and the arts in Liverpool :

• Honorary Secretary of the Merseyside Civic Society (1938-1953)[2]
• Member of BBC North Regional Council (1947-1957)[3]
• Director of the Liverpool Playhouse (1949-1963)[4]
• Chairman of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce (1951-1953)[5]
• Chairman of the Liverpool Youth Welfare Advisory Committee (1952-1965)[6]
• Director of Liverpool Exchange Newsroom Company (1956)
• Member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (1951-1965)[7]
• President of the Liverpool Athenaeum (1962)
• Senior Pro-Chancellor,[8] Liverpool University (1967-1973)[9]
• Member of Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board (1967 - 1976)[10]
• Chairman of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo PLC (1972-1976)[11]
• Chairman Wirral Estates PLC (1980-1983)

At a national level his roles included :

• Member of the Society of Incorporated Accountants Council (1937-1957)[12]
• President of the Society of Incorporated Accountants (1954-1956)[13]
• Secretary of the Overall Manufacturers Association (1940 - 1982)[14]
• Member of the Board of Trade Consultative Committee on Companies (1954-1973)[15][16]
• Vice President of the British Chamber of Commerce (1956)[17]
• Treasurer of the Committee of the Export Credit Guarantee Department (1958)[18][19]
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Council (1957-1975)[20]

He married Eleanor Kinsey in June, 1954. He was made a CBE in the 1956 New Year Honours.[21]

Publications

He was author of Nelson's Tables: Company Procedure : Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement first published in 1933. The eleventh and final edition of this book was published in 1990 ISBN 978-085-121692-8.

References

1. Parker, Robert (2012). Major contributors to the British accountancy profession: A biographical sourcebook (PDF). ICAS. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-904574-85-9.
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21. "1956 New Year Honours".