Fortunes Made in Business. Life struggles of successful people
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published c1901
- Pages 380pp; illus
- Publisher Amalgamated Press
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Published fortnightly in eight parts. Lightly written profiles of c47 'captains on industry' and their businesses. Mostly British but also a few American and one German. They are: Guinness family; Thomas Ismay; Bass & Co; Sir C M Palmer; W H Smith & Son; Sir Thomas Sutherland; Frys of Bristol; Lord Marsham; Thomas Cook; Sir Charles Tennant; Lord Armstrong; William Lever; Edwatd Lloyd; Lawson Johnson; J B Robinson; Sir Richard Tangye; Sir Sydney Waterlow; William Whiteley; Sir Alfred Jones; Rothschild family; Sir Philip Manfield; Reuters; Sir George Newnes;Sir John Arnott; Sir Henry Bessemer; William Bullivant; S Allsopp & Sons; Joseph Chamberlain; Sir Hiram Maxim; John Rylands; Cecil Rhodes; T H Idris; Sir William Arrol; John Brimmead; W & A Gilbey; Sir Heny Doulton; Sir L Leng; John Pearse; Liberty's. See individual chapter entries