Anthony Griffin

Anthony Griffin (Businessman, deep state operative?)
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Born	Anthony George Scott Griffin 15 August 1911
Died	15 September 2015
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Appleby College, University of Toronto, Royal Military College
Parents	Edward Scott Griffin,
Spouse	Kathleen Lockhart Gordon
Interests	S.G. Warburg.
Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.

Anthony "Tony" George Scott Griffin was a member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years. A prominent businessman. Griffin he rose to the pinnacle of Canadian finance. Much in demand as a corporate director, Griffin was a director of 24 companies over the course of his life, from Consumer's Gas to Scurry-Rainbow Oil and chairman of Home Oil Company, and numerous financial firms in between.

Background

Griffin was a step-grandson of Canadian railway magnate William MacKenzie, but the family fortune was said to have been lost in the 1929 crash.

Career

In 1937, Mr. Griffin married Kathleen Lockhart Gordon, the daughter of decorated WWI veteran Colonel H. D. Lockhart Gordon. The following year, the couple’s son Scott, the first of five children, was born. In WW2 he was a submarine commander. After the war, Mr. Griffin joined the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, which was dismantling the total government control of the economy during the war, when Ottawa set everything from food prices to rents. He then joined External Affairs in the economic division

After six years of government service,, Griffin was employed by S.G. Warburg. Griffin went to London, as Mr. Warburg introduced him to his contacts across Europe since he was to run Mr. Warburg's operations in Canada.

In 1953 in Toronto he started a subsidiary called the Triarch Corporation. It worked on deals, including the acquisition of The Globe and Mail by Montreal financier Howard Webster.

Warburg was the first British banking house to sponsor a Eurobond issue for a Canadian company (Hydro-Quebec in 1969) and has since managed more than 200 Canadian borrowings. By 1986, they had raised än astonishing" $29 billion, "though the Warburg name is hardly known outside the tight-mouthed circle of corporate treasurers." Customers have included six of the 10 Canadian provinces, several Crown corporations and 37 corporate clients, ranging from Calgary’s Trizec Corp. Ltd. and Montreal’s Credit Foncier to Genstar Corp. and the Hudson’s Bay Company. Warburg has also acted as an adviser and fiscal strategist to such Canadian companies as Sceptre Resources Ltd., Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., Edper Investments Ltd., International Thomson Organisation Ltd. and Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. Its was one of the investment firms advising the Mulroney government on how to privatize The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., and the talks for the sale of Canadair Ltd. and Eldorado Nuclear Ltd.

He went "to the office until his late 80s and skiing until he was 90".

Connections

He was a member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee, attending from 1964 to 1996.