Lever, Nobel, and Mond, for example, Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC (15 July – 1 May ), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between and , and as Lord Cowdray between and , was an English engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician.
Weetman Pearson was among Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (born July 15, , Shelley Woodhouse, Yorkshire, England—died May 1, , Dunecht House, Aberdeen, Scotland) was a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry.
British overseas investment was Weetman Dickinson Pearson (Viscount Cowdray) () head of of S. Pearson and Son was an engineer, oil industrialist, and owner of the Pearson conglomerate. July 15th. Born at Shelley, Woodhouse, Yorkshire, the son of George Pearson and Sarah Dickinson.
This analysis of the negotiations On the outbreak of the First World War, Weetman Pearson's son Geoffrey, volunteered for the British Army. He was killed in France on 6th September, Pearson, a close friend of the new prime minister, David Lloyd George, was granted the title Viscount Cowdray in December The following month he was appointed President of the Air Board.
Peregrine Pearson, also known Weetman Dickinson Pearson (First Viscount Cowdray; b. 15 July ; d. 1 May ), British contractor who headed the construction and engineering firm of S. Pearson and Son, of London. Born at Shelley Woodhouse, Yorkshire, he received a private education at Harrowgate.
Decent Essays. The Domestic Policies From modest beginnings, Weetman Pearson thus became not only one of the world’s most important engineering contractors, and unquestionably the most influential British businessman in late nineteenth-century Mexico, but also arguably the most successful British entrepreneur anywhere in Latin America at the time.
Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman (–) 1st Viscount Cowdray, building contractor and oil producer. Pearson was born on the 15th of July near Huddersfield. He attended a private school, Hallfield, in Bowling, Bradford, and at the age of thirteen went to Pannal College near Harrogate before joining his family’s firm, S. Pearson & Son.
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don, ), On Pearson's activities in another Latin American country, see Marcelo Bucheli, "Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil," Business History Review 82, no. 3 (Autumn ): 2 David J. Jeremy, "Weetman Dickinson Pearson," in Dictionary of Business Biography.