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Industrial Contract Corporation. In order to allow a public examination of the matter, Newton instigated formal winding up proceedings to be heard before a Chancery judge. In his summary at the end of the investigation, the judge said that the memorandum of the articles of association of the company were nothing short of a scandal. Shareholders had not been made aware of the profit being taken by the directors and the holder of founders' shares had the same rights of voting as the total number of shareholders.
113:(Newberry Vautin Process) Ltd., and in 1888 the chairman of the Gaiety Theatre. He was chairman of The President Land and Exploration Company in 1889 and the same year appointed chairman of the board of Harrods Store, raising capital to buy the store from Charles Digby Harrod for £100,000. In the next decade several other departmental stores followed suit with his involvement including D. H. Evans (chairman), J. R. Roberts’ Stores (chairman), Crisp and Company of Holloway (director) and Paquin of Paris (director). Whilst chairman of Harrods he also oversaw the purchase of the departmental stores
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become contaminated with strychnine in the pharmacy. Newton had complained that this new bottle of medicine had tasted very bitter so it seems unlikely that it was self-administered. The doctor who conducted the post-mortem said at the inquest that Newton's heart was in a poor condition and he would not have lived much longer, although the strychnine had contributed to the death. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure.
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Trent and Hull. In 1874, they purchased a diving cutter and specialised in salvage, raising or breaking-up sunken ships that were a danger to navigation. This sometimes involved the use of explosives, and there was at least one fatality when a diver working for them drowned in 1875. They expanded their fleet of ships, commissioning the 310 ft steamer
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Elizabeth (Lily) Jane Watson (1856-1945), the daughter of Sarah and Joseph Watson who was a yeast merchant living in Mitcham, Surrey. Lily and Alfred Newton had two children, Sir Harry Kottingham Newton, 2nd Baronet (1875-1951) and Muriel Prudhoe Newton (1878-1975), who married in 1902
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Lieutenancy of The City of London. Two of those he put forward were his brother-in-law, Alfred Durant Watson, and his uncle, George Lord Beeforth, who had
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In 1865, Newton was a grain and seed broker in High Street, Hull. In the 1870s he was a yeast merchant in Burton-on-Trent with his father. Later he was in partnership with his brothers, William and George
Beeforth Newton Jr., in a chandlery and shipping business called Newton Brothers of Burton on
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in his indigestion medicine, enough to kill a large number of people. The medicine had been made up on prescription by the
Harrods pharmacist. At the inquest she described her working methods and precautions with poison, saying that it would not have been possible for Newton's medication to have
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Norfolk and Suffolk Brewing Company (Colchester Brewing Company), in 1887 director of the New Zealand Gold Extraction Company
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Victoria visited the City of London and afterwards conferred a Baronetcy on Newton. He became 1st Baronet Newton, of The Wood, Sydenham Hill, Lewisham, Kent and Kottingham House, Burton-on-Trent, co. Stafford. In 1906 he was made Governor of
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