Gordon Hobday

Chivalric Order Member

1916 –

75

Who is Gordon Hobday?

Sir Gordon Ivan Hobday is a British scientist who worked on penicillin with Alexander Fleming and is noted for his role as director of the Boots research team that developed ibuprofen. He later became chairman of Boots.

He was the 4th Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, of which university he is a graduate. He was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire 1983–1991. He was knighted in 1979.

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1916

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on July 23, 2013

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