Leslie Murphy

Sir Leslie Frederick Murphy (17 November 1915 – 29 September 2007) was a British businessman who became chairman of the National Enterprise Board.

Career Murphy was educated at Southall Grammar School and Birkbeck College, London, where he graduated with a first-class degree in Mathematics. He joined the Civil Service during the Second World War. After leaving the civil service he became chairman of Mobil Supply and Mobil Shipping in 1955, Finance Director of the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1959 and a corporate finance specialist at Schroders in 1964. and died in September 2007. After the death of his first wife, he married Dorothy Murray in 1993.