Patrick Milne of Crimonmogate
Wealthy Scottish merchant, politician, and landowner; commissioned Aberdeen architects to design two houses.
Caleb Wright
Factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament, was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.
John Kemp Starley
Inventor of the safety bicycle and founder of what became known as the Rover car manufacturing company.
Frank Harris Fulford
Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman
John Rylands
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
Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world’s first industrial espionage agents.
Sir Alexander MacRobert
Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen
Edward Akroyd
Industrialist, politician and philanthropist.
Marshall Stevens
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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