Henry Bell (1767–1830) by James Tannock Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Bell, Henry (1767–1830)
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Bell, Henry (1767–1830), hotelier and developer of steam navigation
Michael S. Moss
Bell, Henry (1767–1830), hotelier and developer of steam navigation, was born at Torphichen Mill, Linlithgowshire, on 7 April 1767, the fifth son of Patrick Bell and his wife, Margaret Easton. He was educated at the village school and then in Falkirk. Despite the reputation of Scottish schools, his education served him badly and for the rest of his life he was unable to spell and made many grammatical errors in his extensive correspondence. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed as a stonemason and then in 1783 as a millwright—two trades much in demand at a time when Scottish industry was growing rapidly. In 1786 he began work in the shipyard of ...
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Butlin, Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne [Billy] (1899–1980), fairground proprietor and founder of holiday camps
Douglas A. Reid
Butlin, Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne [Billy] (1899–1980), fairground proprietor and founder of holiday camps, was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony, where his parents had emigrated, on 29 September 1899, the elder child of William Butlin and Bertha Hill (d. 1933)...
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Butlin, Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne [Billy] (1899–1980)
Maker: Elliott & Fry
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin (1899–1980) by Elliott & Fry, 1961 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cranston, Robert (1815–1892), founder of temperance hotels
Perilla Kinchin
Cranston, Robert (1815–1892), founder of temperance hotels, was born on 9 August 1815, at East Calder, near Edinburgh, the son of James Cranston, mason and innkeeper, and his wife, Janet Garvie. His grandfather Robert had moved there from Jedburgh about 1778 to act as factor for the ...
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Forte, Charles, Baron Forte (1908–2007), caterer and hotelier
Richard Davenport-Hines
Forte, Charles, Baron Forte (1908–2007), caterer and hotelier, was born on 26 November 1908 in the hamlet of Mortale, outside the village of Casalaticco, in an area of Italy known as the Ciociaria, the eldest son of Rocco Giovanni Forte and his wife, ...
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Forte, Charles, Baron Forte (1908–2007)
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Fothergill, John Rowland (1876–1957), innkeeper and author
Hilary Rubinstein
Fothergill, John Rowland (1876–1957), innkeeper and author, was born on 27 February 1876 at Kennington, Ashford, Kent, the youngest of seven children (five daughters and two sons) of George Fothergill (1833–1915), a retired ironmaster in South Wales who was a magistrate for the counties of Glamorgan and Westmorland, and his first wife, ...
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Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808)
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John Freeth [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), by unknown artist, 18th century
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Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), innkeeper and political ballad writer
John Horden
revised by Nicholas Benbow
Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), innkeeper and political ballad writer, was born at the Bell Tavern, Philip Street, Birmingham, the second of three sons of Charles Freeth, landlord of the Bell, and his wife, Mary. All three sons were trained for a trade: ...
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Hampton, Elizabeth [Bess] (d. 1661), conventicle keeper and laundress
Mary Prior
Hampton, Elizabeth [Bess] (d. 1661), conventicle keeper and laundress, was perhaps of a family from Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire. She never married. She lived in Holywell Street, Oxford, round the corner from Wadham College, and on a direct route to Magdalen College, in a tenement leased from ...
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Keyser, Sir Polydor de (1832–1898)
Maker: John Caller
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Sir Polydor de Keyser (1832–1898) by John Caller Stedelijke Musea Dendermonde
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Keyser, Sir Polydor de (1832–1898), hotelier and politician
Anita McConnell
Keyser, Sir Polydor de (1832–1898), hotelier and politician, was born on 12 December 1832 in rue de l'Église, Dendermonde, Belgium, the younger son of Joost Constant Fidel Armand de Keyser (b. 1801) and his wife, Catharina Rosalie, née Troch. Constant de Keyser...
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Leonard, Thomas Arthur (1864–1948), founder of associations for holidays and outdoor recreation
Douglas Hope
Leonard, Thomas Arthur (1864–1948), founder of associations for holidays and outdoor recreation, was born at 50 Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury, London, on 12 March 1864, the son of Thomas Leonard (1822–1869), clock- and watchmaker, and his wife, Agnes, née Campbell (1833–1910). Leonard's father died when he was only five years old and he was brought up by his mother, who was the daughter of ...
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Lewis [née Ovenden], Rosa (1867–1952), hotel proprietor
Robin McDouall
revised by Anita McConnell
Lewis [née Ovenden], Rosa (1867–1952), hotel proprietor, was born on 26 September 1867 at Leyton, Essex, the sixth of the nine children of William Edwin Ovenden (1833–1910), watchmaker and later undertaker, and his second wife, Eliza (1832–1889), a needlewoman, who was the daughter of ...
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Lynn, William (1792–1870), hotelier and sports promoter
Wray Vamplew
Lynn, William (1792–1870), hotelier and sports promoter, was born in 1792 at East Grinstead, where he was baptized on 17 August 1792, the son of William Lynn and his wife, Mary. Nothing else is known about his early life. He first ventured into the catering trade in ...
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Mountain, Sarah Ann (1769/70–1842), coach and inn proprietor
Dorian Gerhold
Mountain, Sarah Ann (1769/70–1842), coach and inn proprietor, married Butler William Mountain (1759–1818) not later than 1790. His father, William Mountain, had been admitted to the Innholders' Company in 1772, his inn being the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, one of London's...
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Nelson [née Abbat], Ann (1769/70–1852), coach proprietor and innkeeper
Dorian Gerhold
Nelson [née Abbat], Ann (1769/70–1852), coach proprietor and innkeeper, was probably the Ann Abbat, daughter of Robert and Ann Abbat, baptized at St Mary's, Whitechapel, on 11 March 1772. On 18 January 1790 she married Edward Nelson at St Leonard, Shoreditch. In December of the same year ...
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Ritz, César Jean (1850–1918)
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Ritz, César Jean (1850–1918), hotelier
Brigid Allen
Ritz, César Jean (1850–1918), hotelier, was born on 23 February 1850 at Niederwald, Switzerland, the son of Anton Ritz, a peasant farmer. At the age of twelve he was sent as a boarder to the Jesuit college at Sion, and at fifteen, having shown only vaguely artistic leanings, was apprenticed as a wine waiter at a hotel in ...
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