Grant, George Frederick
1843-1930

Businessman, born in Boston, Lincs. While still in his teens, he founded a prosperous leather-working business in Hull. He belonged to the Coltman Street WM chapel in Hull. He was a generous philanthropist and, along with his friend Thomas Robinson Ferens supported the founding of Hull University College, endowing several professorial chairs.

Sources
  • Hull Times, 17 May 1930
  • Geoffrey E. Milburn, 'Piety, Profit and Paternalism', in WHS Proceedings 44 (1983-84)

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Entry written by: GEM
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