Iver Høy

Iver Hesselberg Høy (26 September 1877 – 8 March 1943) was a Norwegian businessperson.

He was born in Langesund as a son of shipmaster Christian Høy (1836–1896) and Karen Elise Wright. In December 1902 he married ship captain's daughter Lille Petersen. Their daughter Cathrine married professor of medicine Erik Poppe.

He took his education at Horten Technical School in 1897 and in Germany from 1899 to 1906. He was the manager of Meraker Smelteverk from 1906 to 1918. The factory was owned by Meraker Brug and the Kiær family, and Iver Høy was tasked with coordinating Meraker Smelteverk with other power-demanding industry. It was coordinated with Hafslund Karbidfabrikk in 1919, and Høy became manager there. When Odda Smelteverk was created in 1924, Høy was manager there too. The three companies operated as one party, among others in international syndicate negotiations. Høy was a vice president of the International Carbide Syndidate.

In 1928, Meraker Smelteverk was sold to an American company. In 1937, Odda Smelteverk was sold to a British company. Høy still continued to have a coordinating role. From 1928 to 1943, his main role was the chairmanship in De Norske Exportnæringers Landsforbund. He was also a supervisory council member of Forsikringsaktieselskabet Norden. He died suddenly, in March 1943 in Oslo.

Iver

Coordinates: 51°31′16″N 0°30′25″W / 51.521°N 0.507°W / 51.521; -0.507

Iver /ˈaɪ.vər/ is in the south-east corner of the English county of Buckinghamshire and a large civil parish in the South Bucks district which in addition to the central clustered village includes the largely residential co-neighbourhoods of Iver Heath and Richings Park.

Geography and transport

London is centred 17 miles (30 km) east. The parish shares woods, lakes and Grand Union Canal-side land covering 43 square miles, the Colne Valley regional park, with Uxbridge, Greater London spanning the edge of four counties. Most of the green space land forms Metropolitan Green Belt and two 18-hole golf courses are in the parish.

Iver's western border is for the most part formed by the Wexham green buffer zone to town of Slough and further south by Langley, Berkshire, a contiguous suburb with its own railway station and amenities. One small part of the Richings Park neighbourhood is east of the M25 motorway, Thorney. Iver is intersected to the north above Iver Heath by the M40. South of the main farm and the golf course of Richings Park is a near-straight boundary, the M4 motorway beyond which is Colnbrook. The Great Western Main line bisects Iver. Richings Park and Thorney are served less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from Iver railway station. Uxbridge tube station is the nearest station to Iver Heath, has a taxi rank and adjacent car park. Iver railway station is connected well by footpath and has no car park. A few Oxford services call on the station's platforms, which is for the non-express aspect of the line for stopping trains to Crossrail destinations.