Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,113 pages of information and 249,768 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

John S. Randles

From Graces Guide

Sir John Scurrah Randles, M.P.

1891 Appointed a director of the reconstructed Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company Limited.[1]

1900 Elected chairman of Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company Limited on death of William McCowan.[2]

1900 Elected Member of Parliament for Cockermouth in the 1900 general election, (October)

1905 Knighted 18 Dec 1905.[3]

By 1922 Member of Council I.& S.I.

Died at his home, Bristowe Hill, Keswick, on 11 February 1945.[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. Financial Times – 3 Apr 1891
  2. Whitehaven News - 23 Aug 1900
  3. The London Gazette - 19 Dec 1905
  4. Lancashire Evening Post - 12 Feb 1945