James Glanville; Investment Banker

James W. Glanville, an investment banker and Caltech graduate who over the years helped raise millions of dollars for his alma mater, died Wednesday in Houston of injuries suffered in a car accident.

Glanville was 69 and most recently had lived in Houston.

He was a well-known financial expert in the petroleum, chemical and natural resource industries and was a director of several major corporations, among them Forest Oil Corp., the Offshore Co., Proven Properties Inc. and Pubco Petroleum Corp. He had previously been chairman of Total Petroleum (North America) Ltd.

At the time of his death he was a general partner of Lazard Freres & Co. in Houston, an investment banking firm.

In addition to his work for Caltech, where he received a master’s degree in 1946, he was a governor of Rice University and a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural Science, both in Houston.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and four sons. Contributions in his name may be made to the Capital Campaign of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.