English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet
,
JP
(18 March 1814 – 23 December 1893) was a self-made businessman from
Gateshead
in the North-East of England. A
colliery
labourer who went on to own several coal mines, he later bought a
wire rope
manufacturing company which manufactured the first
Transatlantic telegraph cable
. He was also a
Conservative Party
Member of Parliament
(MP).
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License