The Acland Mill was the first jute mill established in India. The mill was established in 1855 by British entrepreneur George Acland and Bengali financier...
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mid-1800s jute mills were being established in British India, George Acland's Mill of 1855, at Rishra, being the oldest. The world's largest jute mill was the...
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tea processing firms, jute mills (such as the Acland Mill), railways, electricity utilities, banks, coal mines, and steel mills being just some of the economic...
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James Finlay & Co (category Cotton mills)
A second mill was added in 1880 with the purchase of the Acland Mill, later renamed as the Wellington Jute Mills. The two spinning mills employed 5...
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George Ramsay Acland Mills (1 October 1896 – 8 December 1972) was a British preparatory schoolmaster and an author of children's adventure stories. His...
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two sons, Revd Barton R. V. Mills and Col. Dudley Acland Mills of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Grandchildren of Arthur Mills included children's book author...
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Regiment, rising to become a Captain. After the war, Acland became joint managing director of some paper mills, and he stood unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party...
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off from Poradah" With the establishment of the first jute mill in India, the Acland Mill in Rishra in 1855 to having around 38 companies operating 30...
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citizens of Truro. It initially had only two officers – Colonel Dudley Acland Mills who had retired from the Royal Engineers six years earlier, and Couch...
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John Barton Arundel Acland (25 November 1823 – 18 May 1904), often referred to as J. B. A. Acland, was born in Devon, England, as the youngest child of...
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Sir John Acland (c. 1552 – 1620) of Columb John in the parish of Broadclyst, Devon, was an English knight, landowner, philanthropist, Member of Parliament...
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Hawkridge, Chittlehampton (section Acland)
of the Acland family which originated at nearby Acland, in the parish of Landkey and later achieved great wealth and prominence as the Acland Baronets...
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Breakage. Mills grew up in Kentish Town, North London. She is the daughter of Labour MP Tessa Jowell and lawyer David Mills, and attended Acland Burghley...
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Holnicote Estate (section Acland family)
& Rowe 2006, p. 8. Acland 1981, p. 25. Acland 1981, p. 26. Acland 1981, p. 18. Acland, 1981, p.19 Acland 1981, pp. 25–26. Acland 1981, p. 27. Richardson...
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became CEO of ABF plc in 2005. Weston married Katharine Acland, daughter of Sir Antony Acland, in January 1996 in Windsor and Maidenhead. They have three...
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Dyke Acland MD (Oxon.) FRCP, the son of Sir Henry Acland, 1st Baronet MD FRS. They had two children, a daughter (Aimee Sarah Agnes Dyke Acland) who died...
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Woolleigh, Beaford (section Acland)
Sir Arthur Acland (died 1610) of Acland in the parish of Landkey, Devon. Eleanor's mother was Elizabeth Rolle, who remarried to Sir John Acland (died 1620)...
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with learning difficulties and English as a second language. He attended Acland Burghley School for secondary education. Daley saw a friend attacked with...
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Her daughter Charmian was born on 30 October 1977. Whilst residing at Acland St, St. Kilda, Louise Faulkner developed a friendship with Corrine Wylde...
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Oronhyatekha and the Prince's physician, Henry Acland, suggests that this was really Acland's idea. Acland taught at Oxford and became Oronhyatekha's mentor...
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growing jute, but a decline in its cottage hand spinning. In 1855 George Acland was financed by Bysamber Sen to import Dundee fabric spinning machinery...
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ineffective. When Major Acland led the British grenadiers in a bayonet charge, the Americans finally began shooting at close range. Acland fell, shot in both...
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1931–1943: Richard Denman 1943–1945: Sir John Mills 1945–1950: Thomas Burden 1950–1951: Sir Richard Acland 1951–1957: Sir John Crowder 1957–1962: Sir Hubert...
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iconic it inspired a video game. Acland, James. "Protest 2: a brain factory." Canadian Architect. v.19, n.8. Don Mill, Ont.: Hugh C. Maclean Publications...
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similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring...
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Anthony Acland's crest Heraldic Sculptor. Retrieved 20 December 2013 Anthony Acland's banner of arms image. Retrieved 24 December 2013 Acland's arms image...
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cousin C. P. Scott. At least two grandsons, Charles Peter Allen and Arthur Acland Allen, became MPs. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Taylor, John Edward" . Dictionary...
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Plantation Ltd Uda Pussellawa Plantations Ltd Alexandria International (Pvt) Ltd Acland Insurance Services Ltd Air Ceylon Ltd Asbestos Cement Industries Ltd Asian...
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(1883–90) Foster (1886–90) Spence Watson (1890–1902) Birrell (1902–06) Dyke Acland (1906–07) Angus (1908–11) J Brunner (1911–18) Lunn (1918–20) Robertson (1920–23)...
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