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The list 19th-century English businesspeople includes Janet Achurch, Beatrix Potter, Anne Lister, Richard Trevithick and Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey. The list consists of 1,229 members and 2 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Cecil Rhodes
    English businessman and politician in colonial South Africa
    Cecil Rhodes
    Overview: Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent ...
    Date of birth: 5 July 1853
    Date of death: 26 March 1902
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    Cecil Rhodes 11T
    De Beers people 7T
    South African Freemasons 32T
  • 2.

    Beatrix Potter
    British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
    Beatrix Potter
    Overview: Helen Beatrix Potter (, US , 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals ...
    Date of birth: 28 July 1866
    Date of death: 22 December 1943
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
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    Deaths from pneumonia in England 310T
    People from Hawkshead 11T
    19th-century English businesswomen 39T
  • 3.

    Norman Warne
    English editor
    Norman Warne
    Overview: Norman Dalziel Warne (6 July 1868 – 25 August 1905) was the third son of publisher Frederick Warne, and joined his father's firm Frederick Warne & Co as an editor. In 1900, the company rejected ...
    Date of birth: 1868
    Date of death: 25 August 1905
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Editor
    Gender: Male
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    Publishers (people) from London 199T
    19th-century male writers 4,656T
    Deaths from pernicious anemia 17T
  • 4.

    Samuel Brooks
    British banker
    Samuel Brooks
    Overview: Samuel Brooks (12 August 1793 – 7 June 1864) was an English cotton manufacturer and banker.
    Date of birth: 12 August 1793
    Date of death: 7 June 1864
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Finance Professional
    Gender: Male
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    British railway entrepreneurs 30T
    Pioneers of rail transport 76T
    1792 births 896T
  • 5.

    Janet Achurch
    English stage actress
    Janet Achurch
    Overview: Janet Achurch (17 January 1864 – 11 September 1916) was an English stage actress and actor-manager. She made her London debut in 1883. She played many Shakespearean roles, but is best known as a pioneer ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1864
    Date of death: 11 September 1916
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English businesswomen 35T
    19th-century theatre managers 129T
    19th-century English actresses 165T
  • 6.

    William Morris
    British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834–1896)
    William Morris
    Overview: William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor ...
    Date of birth: 24 March 1834
    Date of death: 3 October 1896
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    Architects from Essex 18T
    Translators of Homer 101T
    Private press movement people 29T
  • 7.

    Samson Fox
    English industrialist and philanthropist
    Samson Fox
    Overview: Samson Fox (11 July 1838 – 24 October 1903) was an English engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He was elected Mayor of Harrogate in Yorkshire and donated most of the cost of building the Royal ...
    Date of birth: 11 July 1838
    Date of death: 24 October 1903
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philanthropist
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    Mayors of Harrogate 2T
    Engineers from Bradford 7T
    19th-century philanthropists 1,011T
  • 8.
    Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey
    Overview: Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (4 March 1785 – 26 January 1867), born Lady Sarah Fane, was an English noblewoman and banker, and through her marriage a member of the Villiers family.
    Date of birth: 4 March 1785
    Date of death: 26 January 1867
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English businesswomen 35T
    Child family (English bankers) 8T
    Women bankers 46T
  • 9.

    Anne Lister
    English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)
    Anne Lister
    Overview: Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English landowner and diarist from Halifax, West Yorkshire. Throughout her life, she kept diaries that chronicled the details of her daily life, i ...
    Date of birth: 3 April 1791
    Date of death: 22 September 1840
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English businesswomen 35T
    British landlords 16T
    Lesbian businesswomen 10T
  • 10.

    Charles Frederick Worth
    English fashion designer
    Charles Frederick Worth
    Overview: Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is ...
    Date of birth: 13 October 1825
    Date of death: 10 March 1895
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Fashion Designer
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    19th-century French businesspeople 121T
    19th-century fashion 38T
    20th-century fashion 51T
  • 11.
    Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
    Overview: Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known ...
    Date of birth: 13 October 1825
    Date of death: 22 December 1899
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    UK MPs who inherited peerages 735T
    UK MPs who were granted peerages 853T
    Liberal Unionist Party peers 27T
  • 12.

    Richard Trevithick
    British inventor and mining engineer (1771–1833)
    Richard Trevithick
    Overview: Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England, UK. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Tre ...
    Date of birth: 13 April 1771
    Date of death: 22 April 1833
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Richard Trevithick 10T
    18th-century British businesspeople 28T
    18th-century British engineers 33T
  • 13.

    W.G. Grace
    English amateur cricketer (1848–1915)
    W.G. Grace
    Overview: William Gilbert "W. G." Grace MRCS LRCP (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest-ever ...
    Date of birth: 18 July 1848
    Date of death: 23 October 1915
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Cricket
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    Cricketers from Bristol 149T
    Lord Londesborough's XI cricketers 59T
    W. G. Grace's XI cricketers 58T
  • 14.

    Eadweard Muybridge
    English photographer
    Eadweard Muybridge
    Overview: Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture ...
    Date of birth: 9 April 1830
    Date of death: 8 May 1904
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Inventor
    Gender: Male
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    Photographers from Surrey 11T
    Photographers from San Francisco 24T
    19th-century American photographers 180T
  • 15.

    Ann Walker of Lightcliffe
    English landowner (1803-1854)
    Overview: Ann Walker (20 May 1803 – 25 February 1854) was an Englishwoman, married in Britain's first known lesbian wedding, to diarist and fellow Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Their union was solemnised by taking ...
    Date of birth: 20 May 1803
    Date of death: 25 February 1854
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Gender: Female
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  • 16.

    Solomon Benedict de Worms
    Austrian aristocrat and businessman
    Overview: Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms (5 February 1801 – 20 October 1882) was an Austrian aristocrat, plantation owner in Ceylon, and stockbroker in London.
    Date of birth: 1 February 1801
    Date of death: 20 October 1882
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Business
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    Planters of British Ceylon 19T
    English stockbrokers 74T
    Sri Lankan people of Austrian descent 3T
  • 17.

    William Makeham
    English actuary and mathematician
    Overview: William Matthew Makeham (11 September 1826 – 17 November 1891) was an English actuary and mathematician.
    Date of birth: 1826
    Date of death: 1891
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actuary
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    Actuaries 30T
    British actuaries 40T
    1891 deaths 1,804T
  • 18.

    Henry Isaac Rowntree
    English confectioner
    Overview: Henry Isaac Rowntree (1837 – 1883) was the founder of Rowntree's, one of the United Kingdom's largest confectionery businesses.
    Date of birth: 1837
    Date of death: 1883
    Age: 45 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Business
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    19th-century philanthropists 1,011T
    History of chocolate 8T
    Confectioners 32T
  • 19.

    Thomas J. Barratt
    British businessman (1841–1914)
    Thomas J. Barratt
    Overview: Thomas James Barratt (1841–1914) was the chairman of the soap manufacturer A&F Pears and a pioneer of brand marketing. He has been called "the father of modern advertising".
    Date of birth: 1841
    Date of death: 1914
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Business
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    Marketing theorists 63T
    Marketing people 120T
    1841 births 2,058T
  • 20.
    George Head Head
    Overview: George Head Head (c.1795 – 12 December 1876) was a mayor, magistrate, banker and mine owner in Carlisle. The bank was started by his father, but was improved and rebuilt in his lifetime. He attended an ...
    Date of birth: 1795
    Date of death: 12 December 1876
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Finance Professional
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    Deputy Lieutenants of Cumberland 15T
    High Sheriffs of Cumberland 61T
    Abolitionists 100T
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