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Alfred McAlpine (businessman)
British construction company founder
Douglas Macmillan
British civil servant and charity founder
Henry Boot
English builder and businessman, founder of Henry Boot PLC
William Gilbert (rugby)
English founder of a sports equipment manufacturer
William O'Bryan
English Methodist preacher and founder of the Bible Christian movement.
Julian Radcliffe
British businessman, and the founder and chairman of the Art Loss Register
Thomas Lowndes
English founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University
John Galloway
English iron-founder and engineer
William Beale
English founder of Beale & Co., solicitors
William Harrison
English gun-founder
Abraham Rudhall
English bell-founder
John Vassall
British shipowner and colonial adventurer
John Fuller (1680–1745)
English ironmaster and gun-founder
George Broad
British brass and bronze founder
Ferruh Mavituna
British enterpreneur, founder of Netsparker Ltd.
John Ferguson
British linen merchant; founder J. S. Ferguson and Co.
Robert Thorne (typographer)
British typographer and type founder
George Josiah Palmer
English newspaper founder and editor
John Sargent
English founder of the Fritchley Friends
Samuel Pearson
English businessman, founder of pearson plc
John Jacob Holtzapffel
Founder of the Holtzapffel dynasty of tool and lathe makers
George Dalziel
English wood engraver, 1815-1902, eldest of the five Dalziel siblings and founder of the family firm
John Blunt
English financier and a founder of the south sea company
Andrews Harrison
English gun-founder
Henry Watson
British musician and philanthropist, founder of the Henry Watson Music Library, Manchester Central Library
Charles Cockbill Cattell
English brass founder and republican, active in Birmingham in the late 19th century