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Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet, chairman of J & J Colman Limited
Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet DL (24 April 1859 - 16 January 1942) was an industrialist who developed Colman's Mustard into an international concern.
Career
Colman was the son of Jeremiah Colman (1807 - 1885) and Isabella Button.[1] Educated at King's College School and St. John's College, Cambridge ,[2] Colman joined the J & J Colman mustard business and then served as its Chairman from 1896.[3] He was also Chairman of Commercial Union .[3]
He served as High Sheriff of Surrey from 1893 to 1894 and also became Lieutenant of the City of London.[1] He was created a baronet in 1907.[4]
Personal life
In 1885, he married Mary McMaster of Mitcham , Surrey.[5] They had one son, also Jeremiah, who succeeded his father in 1942.
In 1888 he purchased Gatton Park , a country estate in Surrey .[6] At Gatton Park he amassed one of the largest collections of orchids in the country.[3] He commissioned Henry Ernest Milner to design the parterre .[7]
He was also keen on cricket and from 1916 to 1923 he was President of Surrey County Cricket Club .[3]
He also funded the Colman Library at the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University .[3]
Colman's brother in law was the lawyer Charles Tyrrell Giles .[8]
References
^ a b Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
^ "Colman, Jeremiah (CLMN878J)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ a b c d e Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
^ "No. 28084" . The London Gazette . 29 November 1907. p. 8331.
^ "Sitter: Lady Mary Colman, née McMaster (d. 1954)" . Lafayette Negative Archive.
^ Gatton Park archive
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"The Park & Gardens, the Parterre" , Gatton Trust, archived from the original on 11 April 2015, retrieved 11 April 2015
^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 859
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