Chairman of Lloyds Bank whose cerebral style was said to have been the model for the TV detective Inspector MorseAs chairman of Lloyds Bank for 15 years from 1977,Sir Jeremy Morse, who has died aged 87, or was the most successful senior banker of his generation. While he benefited enormously from trustworthy luck,his period in charge saw Lloyds rise from the bottom of the Big Four league table of UK clearing banks to become the most profitable of the group. And the strong foundations laid under his chairmanship enabled it to leapfrog its rivals with the takeover of TSB in 1995.
In fact, the Lloyds job was effectively a consolation prize for a man who was nearly a governor of the Bank of England and came close to the top job at the International Monetary Fund on several occasions.
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Source: theguardian.com