Land was born in Berlin into a well-off Jewish family who fled to the UK in 1939 in the aftermath of Kristellnacht . He and his brother changed their name from Landsberger to Land on the advice of a careers advisor at the LSE . Land was educated at Willesden County Grammar School from 1943-1947 and after graduating in Economics from the LSE in 1950 , he joined the London food and catering enterprise J. Lyons , working on the first electronic computer designed for business use , the LEO I with his colleague Mary Coombs
Kristellnacht
Kristallnacht
Frank Land