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.