Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan

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Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan (6 June 1915 – 18 January 1995^[1]) was a Lithuanian-British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented. Gannex raincoats were worn by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a friend of his. Kagan was sent to prison for ten months in 1980 for tax evasion.