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Category Archives: Industrialists

Home / Archive Category: Industrialists

Patrick Milne of Crimonmogate

Jun 7, 2021Georgie DarcyIndustrialists, Landowners, Politicians

Wealthy Scottish merchant, politician, and landowner; commissioned Aberdeen architects to design two houses.

Caleb Wright

Nov 30, 2020Daisy GraceIndustrialists, Politicians

Factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament, was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet

Jun 30, 2019Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Philanthropists, Politicians

British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.

John Kemp Starley

May 4, 2019Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Inventors & inventions, Philanthropists

Inventor of the safety bicycle and founder of what became known as the Rover car manufacturing company.

Frank Harris Fulford

Dec 27, 2018Georgie DarcyIndustrialists

Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman

John Rylands

Nov 30, 2018Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Philanthropists

John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester’s first multi-millionaire.

John Holker

Aug 9, 2018Eric CorbettChemical engineering, Industrialists, Mills

Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world’s first industrial espionage agents.

Sir Alexander MacRobert

Aug 4, 2018Georgie DarcyIndustrialists

Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen

Edward Akroyd

Jul 27, 2018Daisy GraceIndustrialists, Philanthropists, Politicians

Industrialist, politician and philanthropist.

Marshall Stevens

Jun 25, 2018Eric CorbettIndustrialists

Property developer whose work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894.

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