coal-merchant
31collier — n. 1. Coal miner, coal digger. 2. Coal dealer, coal merchant, dealer in coals. 3. Coal transport, coaling vessel …
32Stinnes, Hugo — (1870 1924) industrialist; with interests in coal mining, steel, electricity, newspapers, hotels, and shipping, this master of commercial combination was the most successful German industrialist of his age. Born in Mülheim to a prosperous coal …
33List of Provosts of Peterhead — The Provost of Peterhead was the head of the Peterhead burgh council in Scotland. They were elected by the council and served not only as the chairman of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire town. They were equivalent in many ways to the …
34Plimsoll, Samuel — born Feb. 10, 1824, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 3, 1898, Folkestone, Kent British reformer. A London coal merchant, he served in Parliament (1868–80). With his book Our Seamen (1873), he helped overcome resistance to the Merchant… …
35Victoria Quays — (formerly Sheffield Canal Basin) is a large canal basin in Sheffield, England. It was constructed 1816–1819 as the terminus of the Sheffield Canal (now part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation) and includes the former coal yards of… …
36John Campbell (Falkirk) — area in the nineteenth century. He was born in 1834 in Kilmartin, Craignish in Argyllshire to James Campbell and Elizabeth McPherson. About 1875 John came to Redding as a coal merchant and organised the shipping of coal on the Union Canal. He set …
37Minor characters in the Blandings stories — The following is an incomplete compendium of the fictional characters featured in the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse, in alphabetical order by surname. Lady Georgiana Alcester One of Lord Emsworth s many sisters, Lady Alcester is… …
38Beswick v. Beswick — (1966) Ch. 538, [1968] AC 58 is a landmark English contract case on privity of contract.BackgroundLord Denning described the facts of the case:: Old Peter Beswick was a coal merchant in Eccles, Lancashire. He had no business premises. All he had… …
39Frederic A. Potts — Frederic Augustus Potts (April 4, 1836 ndash; November 9, 1888) was an American businessman and Republican party politician who was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1880.Potts was born in 1836 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to… …
40Alfred Denning, Baron Denning — The Right Honourable Lord Denning OM, PC, DL, KC …
