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Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician.
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (born July 15, 1856, Shelley Woodhouse, Yorkshire, England—died May 1, 1927, Dunecht House, Aberdeen, Scotland) was a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry.
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Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray, DL (born 17 June 1944) of Cowdray Park in West Sussex, is a landowner in West Sussex with 16,500 acres (6,700 ha) and is a major shareholder of the FTSE 100 company Pearson plc, the construction, now publishing, company founded by his ancestor in the 19th century.
19 ago 2020 · Weetman Pearson, First Viscount Cowdray, 1856-1927. by. Spender, John A. (John Alfred), 1862-1942. Publication date. 1977. Topics. Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927, Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Engineers, Great Britain. Publisher. New York : Arno Press.
Weetman Pearson, born in 1856, was the oldest of eight children in a middle-class family that owned a construction firm in Yorkshire. From these unlikely beginnings, he became one of the wealthiest men of the British Gilded Age and acquired significant properties in Scotland, including Raemoir House. Pearson left all formal education behind at ...
Ingegnere, nato a Shelley (Yorkshire) il 15 luglio 1856, morto ad Echt (Aberdeenshire) il 1° maggio 1927. Compiuti gli studî a Harrogate s'impiegò presso la ditta S. Pearson & Co. appaltatori.
20 gen 2022 · Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC, known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician. He was the owner of the Pearson conglomerate.
