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'''W. W. Ladden''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> (1896-1971) was a British businessman and politician. He served as the [[Managing Director]] of [[Simpson and Co]] and was, in 1933, elected the [[mayor]] of [[Madras]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Ladden was born to W. Ladden on 26 May 1896 in [[Hampshire]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and educated at the Maitland Park School.<ref name="whoswhop101">{{cite book|title=The who's who in Madras|page=106|publisher=Pearl Press|year=1940}}</ref> He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War, and was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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Ladden joined the Simpson and Co of Madras and rose to become its Managing Director in the early 1930s. In 1938, along with Sir Alexander McDougall, Ladden founded the [[Amalgamations Group]]. In a major business expansion in 1945, the group acquired Associated Publishers who published ''[[The Madras Mail]]'' and ran the bookstore [[Higginbotham's]]. Ladden had to resign as Managing Director yielding way to [[S. Anantharamakrishnan]] when the group nationalized on India's independence in 1947.<br />
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Ladden, however, continued to head the Amalgamations' London-based subsidiary Wallace Cartwright and Co well into the sixties.<br />
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He was selected [[Mayor of Madras]] for 1933 and [[Sheriff of Madras]] afterwards. <ref> {{cite book|title=Madras Miscellany|first=S| last=Muthiah}} </ref> He was invested [[Officer of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1935. <ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34238|page=12|supp=y|date= 31 December 1935}} </ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
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Ladden died in 1971 at the age of 75.<ref name="reportp30">{{cite book|title=State Administration Report|publisher=Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|page=30}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1896 births]]<br />
[[Category:1971 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Mayors of Chennai]]<br />
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]<br />
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