steel magnateBorn: 1912Birthplace: Kinlochleven, Highland, Scotland Though educated in Scotland at the Royal College of Science and Technology, he worked first in the U.S. before returning to the U…
marketerBorn: 1896 Birthplace: Eccles, Greater Manchester, England Having started out distributing coupons for the football pools in Liverpool, a visit to the U.S. convinced him he should be doing…
furniture designerBorn: 1892Birthplace: London, England Having founded Gordon Russell Ltd. in 1923 to produce furniture, by the 1930s he and his brother Dick (1903–1981) had built a reputation as…
(Encyclopedia) Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 1800–1890, English social reformer. For many years an assistant to Jeremy Bentham, Chadwick applied Bentham's utilitarianism to the reform (1834) of the Poor Law…
LAW, John, (son of Lyman Law and grandson of Richard Law and Amasa Learned), a Representative from Indiana; born in New London, Conn., October 28, 1796; pursued classical studies and was…
(Encyclopedia) Scroggs, Sir William, 1623?–1683, English jurist. Educated at Oxford and trained in law at Gray's Inn, he became (1669) a king's sergeant, was made (1676) justice in common pleas…
