Early life[edit]

Harold Wincott was born in north London, where his father ran a small family business of heraldic engravers.[1] He went to Hornsey County School, leaving at 16.[1]

Career[edit]

Wincott edited the Investors Chronicle for twenty-one years and was a columnist for the Financial Times. He was appointed a CBE in 1963 and wrote pamphlets for the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think-tank based in Westminster, London.

The Stock Exchange (1946)

Beginners Please (1961)

The business of capitalism: A selection of unconventional essays on economic problems of the 1960s (1968)

Kieran Heinemann: Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987, PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2017, ch. 3.