Sir GEORGE SCHUSTER , K.C.S.I.,
K.C.M.G., C.B.E., M.C.
The speaker tonight is an expert in economics and finance. Sir George Schuster was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, and was director of numerous companies from 1906 to the outbreak of War.
He served with the Queen's Own
Oxfordshire Hussars and on the staff in France from 1914 to 1918, and in North Russia in 1919. Among a number of important positions he has held since the War, he was Financial Secretary to the Sudan Government from 1922 to 1927, Economic and Financial Adviser to the Colonial Office from 1927 to 1928.
He was Finance Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India from 1928 to 1934, and in this capacity he gained first-hand knowledge of some of the most important aspects of the Indian question.