Archibald Chisholm

Archibald Hugh Tennent Chisholm, (August 17, 1902November 22, 1992) was a British oil executive and journalist who was editor of The Financial Times between 1937 and 1940. Early life Chisholm was born in 1902, his father was Hugh Chisholm, the editor of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and city editor of The Times. Chisholm attended Westminster School and subsequently graduated from Christ Church, Oxford. He played football at Christ Church and later claimed to have played tennis with Helen Wills-Moody. Chisholm was also a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Oil industry Chisholm joined the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1928. The Kuwait Oil Company was formed in 1934 and the initial agreement with the Kuwaitis was signed by the Kuwaiti Emir Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with the geologist Frank Holmes representing the Gulf Oil Corporation and Chisholm representing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Their initial agreement had been reached in December 1933 after Traders Ltd. under George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd and Lord Glenconner, who had been in secret negotiations with the emir, were forced out by the new consortium of Holmes's Gulf Oil and Chisholm's Anglo Persian. Chisholm's request to be transferred to London was denied and he subsequently resigned from Anglo Persian in 1936. In 1975 he published a history of the early days of the Kuwaiti oil industry; The First Kuwait Oil Concession Agreement: A Record of the Negotiations 1911-1934. Chisholm returned to the oil industry after the Second World War and was part of the delegation to the International Court of Justice that argued the case of British Petroleum (BP) following the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in 1951. He remained part of BP until 1962 and subsequently served as an adviser to the company until 1972.