Harold Finniston

Harold Montague (Monty) Finniston (1912-1991) was a British industrialist born in Glasgow, Scotland. He became chairman of British Steel in 1973, and was knighted in the same year.

In 1977 the government, in response to complaints from industry about a shortage of qualified engineers, invited Finniston to set up a committee of enquiry into British engineering. In 1979 the committee delivered the "Finniston Report", one of whose recommendations was that universities should offer engineering degrees (BEng and MEng) rather than just science degrees (BSc). In 1981 he founded the Prison Reform Trust.