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'''Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable''' (1 December 1859 – 28 March 1927)<ref name = "Riddick (2006), p. 241"/> was an [[India]]n-born [[United Kingdom|British]] merchant and financier. | '''Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable''' (1 December 1859 – 28 March 1927)<ref name = "Riddick (2006), p. 241"/> was an [[India]]n-born [[United Kingdom|British]] merchant and financier. | ||
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==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
On 10 October 1888, he married Lilian Sarah, daughter of Weston Joseph Sparkes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sitter: Lady Lilian Sarah Cable, later Baroness Cable, née Sparkes ( ).|url=http://lafayette.org.uk/cab3642a.html|publisher=Lafayette Negative Archive}}</ref> | On 10 October 1888, he married Lilian Sarah, daughter of Weston Joseph Sparkes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sitter: Lady Lilian Sarah Cable, later Baroness Cable, née Sparkes ( ).|url=http://lafayette.org.uk/cab3642a.html|publisher=Lafayette Negative Archive}}</ref> | ||
The couple had two daughters and two sons, both named George. The first died at or near birth and was buried on 6 February 1891 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.<ref>{{cite web|title=George Pickersgill Cable LT61-TDP.|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGVY-K29|publisher=India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948}}</ref> The second was born on 5 December 1891 at Ideford. He was killed in action in the [[First World War]] in 1915.<ref>The Rifle Brigade (1916), p. 127</ref> His wife died in 1924 and Cable survived her for three years, dying in [[London]] in 1927; he was buried in Ideford on 31 March. With his death the barony became extinct. | The couple had two daughters and two sons, both named George. The first died at or near birth and was buried on 6 February 1891 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.<ref>{{cite web|title=George Pickersgill Cable LT61-TDP.|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGVY-K29|publisher=India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948}}</ref> The second was born on 5 December 1891 at Ideford. He was killed in action in the [[First World War]] in 1915.<ref>The Rifle Brigade (1916), p. 127</ref> His daughter the Hon. Ruth McCarthy Cable married the businessman and public servant Sir Edward Benthall, who followed Lord Cable to Bird and Co. in India; she was the mother of the theatre director [[Michael Benthall]]. | ||
His wife died in 1924 and Cable survived her for three years, dying in [[London]] in 1927; he was buried in Ideford on 31 March. With his death the barony became extinct. | |||
A Junior Wing House at [[St Paul's School, Darjeeling]], India, where all the [[house system|houses]] bear names after colonial age figures, is named after him.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} | A Junior Wing House at [[St Paul's School, Darjeeling]], India, where all the [[house system|houses]] bear names after colonial age figures, is named after him.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
{{Reflist | {{Reflist}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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*{{cite book | title = The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1916 | year = 1916 | publisher = The Rifle Brigade Club | location = London }} | *{{cite book | title = The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1916 | year = 1916 | publisher = The Rifle Brigade Club | location = London }} | ||
*{{cite book|authorlink1=Mira Wilkins | author = Mira Wilkins | author2 = Harm G. Schröter | name-list-style = amp | title = The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830–1996 | year = 1998 | ISBN = 0-19-829032-2 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford }} | *{{cite book|authorlink1=Mira Wilkins | author = Mira Wilkins | author2 = Harm G. Schröter | name-list-style = amp | title = The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830–1996 | year = 1998 | ISBN = 0-19-829032-2 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford }} | ||
*{{cite book | last = Cokayne | first = George Edward | editor = Vicary Gibbs | publisher = The St Catherine Press Ltd. | title = The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom | volume = | *{{cite book | last = Cokayne | first = George Edward | editor = Vicary Gibbs | publisher = The St Catherine Press Ltd. | title = The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom | volume = XIII | year = 1940 | location = London }} | ||
*{{cite book | last = Harrison | first = Godfrey | publisher = Anna Art Press Private Ltd. | title = Bird and Company of Calcutta: A History produced to mark the Firm's Centenary, 1864–1964 | year = 1964 | location = Calcutta }} | *{{cite book | last = Harrison | first = Godfrey | publisher = Anna Art Press Private Ltd. | title = Bird and Company of Calcutta: A History produced to mark the Firm's Centenary, 1864–1964 | year = 1964 | location = Calcutta }} | ||
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The Lord Cable | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 December 1859 Calcutta, India |
| Died | 28 March 1927 (aged 67) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | merchant and financier |
| Title | 1st Baron Cable |
| Predecessor | new creation |
| Successor | extinct |
Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable (1 December 1859 – 28 March 1927)[1] was an Indian-born British merchant and financier.
Background[edit | edit source]
Born in Calcutta, he was the eldest son of George Hebberd Cable, a superintendent with the Indian Customs and Excise Service.[2] His mother Emily Maria, was the daughter of William Pickersgill, who had served in the Royal Navy.[2] Cable was educated privately and at the University of Calcutta.[1]
Mercantile career[edit | edit source]
After his education Cable became first employed in Calcutta at Ashburner and Co and then worked for Lyall, Rennie and Co, both trading agencies.[1] Aged seventeen he joined Bird and Co, a merchant house which had interests in many different areas of commerce, especially labour contracting (in which it had started), coal and jute.[3]
In 1886, he became a partner in the company.[4] By 1896 it directly employed 15,000 people and contracted 15,000 more.[5] Much of this expansion was due to Cable's business acumen and his knowledge of India and good relations with its people.[5] He also set up a subsidiary in the City of London to ease British investments in the company.[6] By 1914 he was senior partner of the company.[6] In 1917 Bird acquired a controlling interest in F. W. Heilgers and Co, another Calcutta merchant house, creating by far the largest company in India, employing 100,000 people.[7]
Cable was also a director of the Western Assurance Company, the Tanganyika Development Company, and the British America Assurance Company.
Political career[edit | edit source]
In 1903, Cable was elected president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce[8] and from then sat in the Imperial Legislative Council, headed by the Viceroy of India.[1] He was nominated Sheriff of Calcutta in 1905 and during his tenure was knighted when George, Prince of Wales and his wife Mary of Teck visited the city in the following year.[9]
After his return to England by 1913, Cable was invited into the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency[8] and in 1916 he was appointed High Sheriff of Devon.[10] In the 1921 New Year's Honours he was raised to Peerage of the United Kingdom with the title Baron Cable, of Ideford, in the County of Devon.[11][12]
Personal life[edit | edit source]
On 10 October 1888, he married Lilian Sarah, daughter of Weston Joseph Sparkes.[13] The couple had two daughters and two sons, both named George. The first died at or near birth and was buried on 6 February 1891 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.[14] The second was born on 5 December 1891 at Ideford. He was killed in action in the First World War in 1915.[15] His daughter the Hon. Ruth McCarthy Cable married the businessman and public servant Sir Edward Benthall, who followed Lord Cable to Bird and Co. in India; she was the mother of the theatre director Michael Benthall.
His wife died in 1924 and Cable survived her for three years, dying in London in 1927; he was buried in Ideford on 31 March. With his death the barony became extinct.
A Junior Wing House at St Paul's School, Darjeeling, India, where all the houses bear names after colonial age figures, is named after him.[citation needed]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Riddick (2006), p. 241
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Walford (1919), p. 208
- ↑ Wilkins and Schröter (1998), p. 210
- ↑ Wilkins and Schröter (1998), p. 212
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Harrison (1964), p. 52
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harrison (1964), p. 94
- ↑ Harrison (1964), p. 115
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Who's Who (1926), p. 444
- ↑ "No. 27913". The London Gazette. 15 May 1906. p. 3326.
- ↑ Whitaker (1923), p. 178
- ↑ "No. 32178". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1920. p. 1.
- ↑ "No. 32212". The London Gazette. 1 February 1921. p. 858.
- ↑ "Sitter: Lady Lilian Sarah Cable, later Baroness Cable, née Sparkes ( )". Lafayette Negative Archive.
- ↑ "George Pickersgill Cable LT61-TDP". India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948.
- ↑ The Rifle Brigade (1916), p. 127
References[edit | edit source]
- Who's Who 1926. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1926.
- Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage 1923. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923.
- Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
- Riddick, John F. (2006). The History of British India: A Chronology. Westport: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-313-32280-5.
- The Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1916. London: The Rifle Brigade Club. 1916.
- Mira Wilkins & Harm G. Schröter (1998). The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830–1996. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-829032-2.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1940). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. XIII. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd.
- Harrison, Godfrey (1964). Bird and Company of Calcutta: A History produced to mark the Firm's Centenary, 1864–1964. Calcutta: Anna Art Press Private Ltd.
External links[edit | edit source]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable
- Portraits of Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable at the National Portrait Gallery, London
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New creation | Baron Cable 1921–1927 |
Extinct |