Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 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.
Eric Vansittart Bowater (1895–1962), paper manufacturer and industrialist
Grandson of William Vansittart Bowater
1921 Entered the family firm, W. V. Bowater and Sons
1927 Became chairman and managing director of the firm; he was the leading figure in the firm for the following three and a half decades. He dominated Bowater's affairs by sheer force of personality.
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