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Sir Ernest Thomas Harrison OBE HonFREng (11 May 1926 – 16 February 2009) was an English businessman. He was best known as chairman of electronics company Racal and the first chairman of its spun-out mobile telephony division, Vodafone. He was also a fan and major shareholder of Arsenal Football Club.
Feb 20, 2009 · Sir Ernest Harrison, who built up a business empire that became the second largest defence electronics group in the U.K. for a while, Racal Electronics, and then spawned what has become arguably the world's biggest mobile network operator, Vodafone, has passed away, aged 82.
Sep 24, 2018 · The recipient of the Mountbatten Medal and the most successful businessman of UK, Sir Ernest Harrison, was the first chairman of Vodafone, who started his journey as the head clerk at the parent company of Vodafone.
Feb 22, 2009 · Sir Ernest Harrison, who died on February 16 aged 82, was one of the outstanding British industrial entrepreneurs of his generation, as the driving force of the electronics group Racal, which...
Feb 19, 2009 · Sir Ernest Harrison: The man who imaged the mobile phone. Virginia, USA, 1980, five years before the word “cellphone” entered the vocabulary, an Englishman was entering the gates of General Electric’s mobile radio factory in Virginia.
Sir Ernest Harrison, Vodafone’s first chairman, receives the first call at his New Year’s party in Surrey
Jan 1, 2020 · At just after midnight on 1 January 1985 in Parliament Square, London, Michael Harrison made the UK’s first mobile phone call over Vodafone’s cellular network. He called his father Sir Ernest Harrison, Vodafone’s founder and first chairman, and said: “Happy New Year dad, it’s Mike here.
