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Lord George, who died on Saturday aged 70, was the first Governor of the Bank of England in modern times to be allowed to manage interest rates independently of political interference.
Jump to full article: Electronic Telegraph (uk), 2009-04-19
Intro: His only serious indulgence was cigarettes: it was said that he had once given up for three months, but had then found himself on an official visit to a tobacco factory in Northern Ireland; the sight of millions of cigarettes rolling past him had been too much to resist.
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