. . . ICI's lunch bills
THE CAREY family of ICI have been friends of mine for half a century, but in its history they go back further. In 1857 a research chemist called Eustace Carey joined a forebear company of ICI's in sunny Widnes, and there have been Careys around ever since. Dermot Carey (third generation) was ICI Pharmaceuticals' first commercial director, and kept it afloat with some persuasive lunching at the George Hotel, Knutsford. Zeneca ought to pay for those lunches. Now Dermot's son Nick, the last of the ICI Careys, has gone off to run the City & Guilds Institute, unhappy to see the end of the old ICI, but still apprecia- tive: 'ICI truly was a pathfinder,' he writes in its journal Roundel, which is also going — 'not just technically but also commercial- ly. Maybe Zeneca is just the latest example. It's certainly a gutsy decision.' I can deny that, as a tribute to ICI's senior family, Millbank will be renamed Carey Street.
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