Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in North East England. A colliery labourer who went on to own several coal mines, he later bought a wi
"Geordie": Elliot as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1879
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Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet
…Scotia and then in 1863 formed a partnership which bought for £365,000 all the South Wales coal mines of the late Thomas Powell. He then established the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co (PDSC) which grew to be the largest coal company in South Wales. He was acting manager of the company until 1877 and extended the business, buying coal mines…
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