Sir William Lithgow who died peacefully aged 87 at his country estate, Ormsary, near Lochgilphead, Argyll on 28 February 2022, always described himself as a shipbuilder. The only son of Sir James Lithgow and Gwendolyn Harrison, William was educated at Winchester College. His father, the greatest shipbuilder of his generation or any other generation for that matter, died in 1952 on William's eighteenth birthday. As he had not reached the then age of majority, Lady Lithgow took over the chairmanship of the Port Glasgow-based Lithgows Limited, then the largest shipbuilding group in private hands in the world.
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