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See also:PENDER, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1816—1896) , See also:British See also:cable See also:pioneer, was See also:born in the Vale of See also:Leven, See also:Scotland, on the loth of See also:September 1816, and after attending school in See also:Glasgow became a successful See also:merchant in textile fabrics in that See also:city and in See also:Manchester. His name is chiefly known in connexion with submarine cables, of which on the commercial See also:side he was an important See also:promoter. He was one of the 3.15 contributors who each risked a thousand pounds in the Transatlantic Cable in 1857, and when the See also:Atlantic See also:Telegraph See also:Company was ruined by the loss of the 1865 cable he formed the Anglo-See also:American Telegraph Company to continue the See also:work, but it was not till he had given his See also:personal See also:guarantee for a See also:quarter of a million pounds that the makers would under-take the manufacture of a new cable. But in the end he was justified, and telegraphic communication with See also:America became a commercial success. Subsequently he fostered cable enter-prise in all parts of the See also:world, and at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death, which occurred at See also:Footscray See also:Place, See also:Kent, on the 7th of See also:July 1-896, he controlled companies having a See also:capital of 15 millions See also:sterling and owning 73,640 nautical See also:miles of cables. He represented See also:Wick Burghs in See also:parliament from 1872 to 1885 and from 1892 to 1896. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1888 and was promoted in 1892 to be G.C.M.G. His eldest son See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James (b. 1841), who was M.P. for See also:Mid See also:Northamptonshire in 1895—1900, was created a See also:baronet in 1897; and his third son, John See also:Denison (b. 1855), was created a K.C.M.G. in 1901.
End of Article: PENDER, SIR JOHN (1816—1896)
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