Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, Baron Dearing CB was a senior civil servant before becoming Chairman and Chief Executive of the Post Office Ltd.

He was later the 5th Chancellor of the University of Nottingham 1993-2000 and the author of the Dearing Report into Higher Education. The name "Dearing Report" is also applied to the 2001 report which he chaired "The Way Ahead: Church of England schools in the new millennium".

He was chairman of Ufi Ltd between 1998 and 2001 and their Sheffield based head office is named Dearing House after him.

In 1998, he was made a life peer as Ronald, Lord Dearing, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

In 2000, Lord Dearing visited Malet Lambert School Language College, Kingston upon Hull, to open a new building constructed for the use of science and geography, it being named the Dearing Centre. Similarly, in 2004, he visited Hymers College, Kingston upon Hull, where upon he opened the new science block with the purpose of educating the children in the areas of physics and chemistry.

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