Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes (22 March 1914 to 21 July 2008), was an English industrialist. He was the managing director of Leyland Motors from 1962 to 1968 and the chief executive of its successor British Leyland from 1968 to 1975. He was born in Plymouth, educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon, and in 1930 began an engineering apprenticeship with Leyland Motors. He was knighted in 1965 and created a life peer as Baron Stokes, of Leyland, on 9 January 1969, sitting as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords, and he remained on the board of British Leyland until 1979.
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He was the managing director of Leyland Motors from 1962 to 1968 and the chief executive of its successor British Leyland from 1968 to 1975.
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He was the managing director of Leyland Motors from 1962 to 1968 and the chief executive of its successor British Leyland from 1968 to 1975.
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The new corporation was arranged into seven divisions under its new chairman, Sir Donald Stokes (formerly the chairman of LMC).
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