Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet photograph

Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet

Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet Life story


Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP was a mining engineer and 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.

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