Rt Hon. Lord Swraj Paul PC
(1931-present)
1st Baron Paul (from 1996) and Privy Counsellor (from 2009)
Aged 93
Born in Jalandhar, Punjab in 1931. Swraj Paul was educated at Jalandhar, Lahore and then MIT. He then worked for the family business, Apeejay Surrendra Group in India. In 1966 he relocated to the United Kingdom to get medical treatment for his young daughter, who had leukaemia. He later founded Natural Gas Tubes which eventually led to his founding the Caparo Group in 1968, which became one of the UK’s largest steel conversion and distribution businesses. In 2015 his son Angad Paul, the Group's CEO, died in an apparent suicide from his eight floor penthouse flat
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