Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet

Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, of Penshaw (* March 18, 1814 in Gateshead, † December 23, 1893 ) was a British entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering and mine owners.

Life

Sir George Elliot was the eldest son of the miner Ralph Elliot and began to work at Penshaw Whitefield Pit, at the age of 9 years. Later he became a mine owner. In 1849 he took over along with Richard A. Glass, the Drahtseilfabrik Kuper & Co ( in Greenwich, near London ), as well as their contracts for the manufacture of submarine telegraph cables. The merchant Johann Baptiste Wilhelm Heimann from Ludgate Hill, probably an agent of Wilhelm August Julius Albert, had received a patent for the production of wire ropes and cables and then on March 8, 1841 with his partner John George William Küper the Drahtseilfabrik Heimann & Küper, Grand Surrey Canal Basin founded in Camberwell. In November 1846, the company had to file for bankruptcy.

Glass & Elliot, or the Glass founded in 1854, Elliot & Company introduced the first transatlantic telegraph cable ago. 1864, she merged with the gutta percha Company for the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company.

Elliot was one of 1868-1880 and of 1881-1885 for the constituency of Durham North as well as from 1886-1892 for the constituency of Monmouth Boroughs as a Member of the Conservative Party in the House. He was appointed in 1874 to the Baronet Elliot of Penshaw, Durham.