Alexander Poliakoff
Alexander Poliakoff OBE was a Russian-born British electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years.
Alexander Poliakoff was born in 1910 at his parents' country house at Losino-Ostrovskaya, near Moscow, the only son of Joseph Poliakoff, a Russian-Jewish telephone and sound engineer and inventor, and Flora Shabbat, a granddaughter of a textile millionaire. He was of Jewish descent.
In 1946, Poliakoff married Ina Montagu, granddaughter of the British-Jewish banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. Their elder son is the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff, and their younger son is the playwright Stephen Poliakoff.
He was appointed OBE in the 1982 New Year Honours.
