| LC control no. | no2015087848 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Alliance, David, 1932- |
| Variant(s) | Alliance, Davoud, 1932- Alliance, Lord, of Manchester CBE, 1932- Alliance, Lord David, GBE, 1932- Alliance, Baron, 1932- |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Didsbury (Manchester, England) St. John's Wood (London, England) Tel Aviv, Israel Kāshān, Iran Tehran, Iran Manchester, England |
| Birth date | 19320615 |
| Place of birth | Kāshān, Iran |
| Field of activity | Textile industry--Great Britain Jews, Ethiopian--Israel Operation Moses, 1984-1985 Operation Solomon, 1991 Ethiopia--Emigration and immigration Israel Business education Iran--Civilization--Study and teaching Art Lowry, Laurence Stephen, 1887-1976 |
| Affiliation | Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) Thomas Hoghton N. Brown Group Coats Viyella Manchester Business School Universiṭat Tel-Aviv |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen Textile manufacturers Philanthropists Politicians--England Art--Collectors and collecting Legislators--England |
| Found in | Alliance, David. A bazaar life, 2015: title page (David Alliance) page ix, etc. (born June 15, 1932 in Kashan, Iran. Was forced to leave school and apprenticed to a textile merchant in the bazaar in Tehran at age 13; arrived penniless in Manchester in 1950 and started a textile business; married Alma Joseph on June 15, 1955 but later divorced; acquired Thomas Hoghton in 1956 and went on to acquire other textile companies and mills; by 1960 he was a millionaire and employed tens of thousands of workers; owner of a mail order company M. Brown Group; married Homa Alliance in 1982; bought Carrington Viyella in 1983; was chief executive of Vantona Viyella in the mid-1980s and became the biggest textile manufacturer in the Western world reviving the dying textile industry in Great Britain; participated in Operation Moses in the late 1970s and Operation Solomon that brought 30,000 Jews from Ethiopia to Israel; received many honorary degrees and was knighted in 1983 for his work in the textile industry; was appointed CBE [Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire] in 1984; was made a peer in 2004; divides his time between London, Manchester, and Tel Aviv) Wikipedia, Viewed March 30, 2015 (David Alliance, Baron Alliance; British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician of Jewish origin from Iran; original name Davoud; lives in Didsbury, Manchester and St. Johns Wood, London; serves on the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University. In 2012 the university established an Iranian Studies Center, named after Lord David Alliance; art collector, especially Lowry paintings; was awarded GBE [Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire] in 1989) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alliance,_Baron_Alliance> |
| Associated language | eng |
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