Enlightened entrepreneurs
Bradley, Ian Campbell1987
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This publication tells the story of ten Victorian industrialists who combined commercial success with social progress and became among the richest and most influential men of their generation. They held a shared conviction that their wealth should be used for the benefit of the community as a whole in line with their values of Victorian Liberalism and Nonconformity. Concerned with issues of housing, health care and the education of their employees, they also established many notable philanthropic institutions including the Old Vic Theatre, Royal Holloway College and the Carnegie Free Libraries and Trusts and communities such as Bournville and Port Sunlight. The work of the following figures is examined: Thomas Holloway, Sir Titus Salt, Samuel Morley, George Palmer, Jeremiah James Colman, Andrew Carnegie, George Cadbury, Joseph Rowntree, Jesse Boot and William Hesketh Lever.
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Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.
Collation:
207 p. photographs 24 cm.
Contents:
Thomas Holloway (1800-83)Sir Titus Salt (1803-76)Samuel Morley (1809-86)George Palmer (1818-97)Jeremiah James Colman (1830-98)Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)George Cadbury (1839-1922)Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925)Jesse Boot (1850-1931)William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925)
ISBN:
02977905449780297790549
Local class:
4/CAR
Language:
English
Index terms:
Great BritainEntrepreneurship1820-1930Biographies
BRN:
73346
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