Adamson, William [Willie] (1863–1936), politician and trade unionist, was born at Halbeath, near Dunfermline in Fife, on 2 April 1863, the son of James Armstrong Adamson, a coalminer, and Flora Cunningham. He attended a dame-school run by the wife of a mining engineer, and left at the age of eleven to work in the mining industry, where he was employed for the next twenty-seven years. He married, on 25 February 1887, ...
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Adamson, William [Willie] (1863–1936), politician and trade unionist
David Howell
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Adamson, William (1863–1936)
Maker: Bassano
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William Adamson (1863–1936) by Bassano, 1920 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Anstie, John (1743–1830), clothier
Lorna Haycock
Anstie, John (1743–1830), clothier, was born on 7 September 1743 in Devizes, the eldest son of John Anstie (1698–1779), grocer and snuff maker, and his third wife, Mary (née Sharpe). He was baptized at Devizes Baptist Church, and later became a prominent member of the congregation. On 4 April 1780 he married ...
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Bader, Ernest (1890–1982), chemical manufacturer and industrial reformer
John G. Corina
Bader, Ernest (1890–1982), chemical manufacturer and industrial reformer, was born in Regensdorf, Switzerland, on 24 November 1890, the youngest of thirteen children of a protestant farmer, Gottlieb Bader, and his wife, Barbara Meier. He was expelled from school at the age of twelve and went to work as a menial in a ...
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Benham, John Lee (1785–1864), stove manufacturer
Anita McConnell
Benham, John Lee (1785–1864), stove manufacturer, was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 3 November 1785, the second son of Avery Benham (bap. 1753, d. 1829), whitesmith, and his wife, Ann Lee (1752/3–1830). In 1791 his father moved to London...
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Bevin, Ernest (1881–1951), trade unionist and politician
Chris Wrigley
Bevin, Ernest (1881–1951), trade unionist and politician, was born at Winsford, Somerset, on 7 March 1881, the seventh child of Diana (known as Mercy) Bevin (1841–1889). His mother, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Tidbould, married William Bevin, an agricultural labourer, in 1864. By the mid-1870s ...
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Bevin, Ernest (1881–1951)
Maker: Felix H. Man
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) by Felix H. Man, 1939–40 © Estate of Felix H. Man / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Black, Sir Cyril Wilson (1902–1991), property developer and politician
Patrick Cosgrave
Black, Sir Cyril Wilson (1902–1991), property developer and politician, was born on 8 April 1902 at 11 Langham Mansions, Kensington, London, one of four sons (three surviving) and two daughters of Robert Wilson Black (1871–1951), property developer, of 11 Langham Mansions, and his wife, ...
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Black, Sir Cyril Wilson (1902–1991)
Maker: Walter Bird
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Sir Cyril Wilson Black (1902–1991) by Walter Bird, 1959 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Blunt, Sir John, first baronet (bap. 1665, d. 1733), financier and a founder of the South Sea Company
Howard Erskine-Hill
Blunt, Sir John, first baronet (bap. 1665, d. 1733), financier and a founder of the South Sea Company, son of Thomas Blunt, a Baptist shoemaker of Rochester, Kent, and Isabella, daughter of Thomas Blacke, yeoman, was baptized at St Nicholas's Church, Rochester, on 24 July 1665. He became free of the ...
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Brace, William (1865–1947), trade unionist
John Williams
Brace, William (1865–1947), trade unionist, was born William Thomas Moon, at Risca, Wales, on 23 September 1865, one of six children of Thomas Jones Moon, a coal miner, and his wife, Ann, née Moses. His mother was previously married to a coal miner, ...
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Brown, John (1736–1803), merchant and politician in the United States of America
Murney Gerlach
Brown, John (1736–1803), merchant and politician in the United States of America, was born on 27 January 1736 in Providence, Rhode Island, the third son of James Brown (1698–1739) merchant and shipowner, and Hope Power (1702–1792). John Brown was a member of a distinguished ...
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Burberry, Thomas (1835–1926), men's outfitter
Christopher Breward
Burberry, Thomas (1835–1926), men's outfitter, was born at Brockham Green, in the parish of Betchworth, near Dorking, Surrey, on 17 August 1835, the son of Thomas Burberry, farmer and nonconformist, and his second wife, Elizabeth, née Flint. Following an elementary education at Brockham Green village school...
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Burberry, Thomas (1835–1926)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Thomas Burberry (1835–1926) by unknown photographer Burberry Heritage Archive
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Candlish, John (1816–1874), glass bottle manufacturer and politician
Catherine Ross
Candlish, John (1816–1874), glass bottle manufacturer and politician, was born at Tarset, near Bellingham in Northumberland, and baptized on 28 April 1816, the eldest son of John Candlish (b. 1793), farmer, and his wife, Mary, née Robson. Following the death of his wife about 1820, the elder ...
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Chivers, John (1857–1929), jam manufacturer
T. A. B. Corley
Chivers, John (1857–1929), jam manufacturer, was born on 27 June 1857 at Histon, near Cambridge, the third son of Stephen Chivers and his wife, Rebecca Frohock, from nearby Waterbeach. The Chivers family, active as farmers and fruit growers at Histon since 1806, had latterly built up a substantial trade in fruit deliveries to outside markets, assisted by the arrival of the railway in 1847. They established a wholesale depot at ...
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Coats, Thomas (1809–1883), thread manufacturer and benefactor
John Butt
Coats, Thomas (1809–1883), thread manufacturer and benefactor, was born at Ferguslie, Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 18 October 1809, the fourth of at least six sons of James Coats (1774–1857), one of the founders of the Paisley thread industry, and Catherine Mitchell (d. 1857)...
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Coats, Thomas (1809–1883)
Maker: Sir Daniel Macnee
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Thomas Coats (1809–1883) by Sir Daniel Macnee, 1881 Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Renfrewshire Council
