Weetman pearson biography of donald

  • A biography of Weetman Pearson,first Viscount Cowdray ; Currently unavailable.
  • British overseas investment was a powerful force behind rapid global integration before World War I. Close to half of the total was in the form of foreign.
  • Weetman Dickinson Pearson (First Viscount Cowdray; b.

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    Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (1856–1927)

    Weetman Dickinson Pearson (First Viscount Cowdray; b. 15 July 1856; d. 1 May 1927), 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. In 1875 he became a partner in his grandfather's construction firm. Among the projects that made the firm known around the world during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the Blackwall Tunnel under the Thames River in London (1894), the Hudson River Railroad Tunnel in New York (initiated in 1888, completed ca. 1900), and harbor works and railroads in England, Spain, Mexico, and Chile.

    Pearson's firm received several contracts from the government of Mexican General Porfirio Díaz. It initially entered Mexico to construct the Grand Canal, which drained the lake in the Valley of Mexico, ending the perennial flooding of Mexico City. Other projects included

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    1. Weetman Pearson in Historical and Historiographical Context

    Garner, Paul. "1. Weetman Pearson in Historical and Historiographical Context: British- Mexican Relations, Informal Empire, Mexican National Development, and the Rise of Global Business in the Late Nineteenth Century". British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2011, pp. 6-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804779036-003

    Garner, P. (2011). 1. Weetman Pearson in Historical and Historiographical Context: British- Mexican Relations, Informal Empire, Mexican National Development, and the Rise of Global Business in the Late Nineteenth Century. In British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919 (pp. 6-30). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804779036-003

    Garner, P. 2011. 1. Weetman Pearson in Historical

  • weetman pearson biography of donald

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    Weetman Pearson

    Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1er vicomte Cowdray, né le dans le village dem Shelley près de Huddersfield et mort le à Dunecht dans l'Aberdeenshire[1],[2], est un homme d'affaires et homme politique britannique.

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    Né dans le Yorkshire dans une famille aisée, il est éduqué dans une public school puis rejoint à l'âge de 19 ans l'entreprise familiale S. Pearson & Son, entreprise d'ingénierie dem grands travaux fondée par son grand-père paternel Samuel Pearson. Il part aux États-Unis et y trouve de nouvelles possibilités commerciales pour la compagnie. Il initie l'agrandissement des activités de l'entreprise vers le sud dem l'Angleterre, fransk artikel États-Unis et l'Espagne. Marié en 1881, il aura quatre enfants, dont le plus jeune sera tué tout au début dem la Première Guerre mondiale[1],[2],[3].

    Fin 1889, il titta rend au Mexique où il mène les activités de l'entreprise dans le pays : assainissement de maréc