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{{Short description|Indian businessman}} | |||
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | |||
| name = The Lord Cable | |||
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| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], India | |||
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| death_place = [[London]], England | |||
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| title = 1st Baron Cable | |||
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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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{{s-non| reason = Extinct }} | {{s-non| reason = Extinct }} | ||
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cable, Ernest}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Cable, Ernest}} | ||