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Robert Whitehead (Derbyshire)

Robert Whitehead (Derbyshire)

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General World History

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ISBN10: 6135177168
ISBN13: 9786135177169
Publisher: Betascript Pub
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 9.02 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Whitehead (1856 to 1938) was an English land owner, businessman and Justice of the Peace (1915-1916). He was chairman or director of many business in the area including Cammell Laird shipbuilders, Brodsworth Colliery Staverly Coal and Iron Company and Leeds Forge Company Ltd and many more. He was the 2nd cousin to the Robert Whitehead who invented the torpedo and great-great Grandson of John Kay who invented the Flying Shuttle. In 1901 he took over the Hargate Estate, near the village of Wormhill, Derbyshire, where he lived until he died in 1938. He added massively to the estate which by 1910 comprised Hargate Wall, Hargate Hall, a lodge house, stables and huge centrally heated orangery.

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