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PENRHYN, GEORGE SHOLTO GORDON

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PENRHYN, See also:GEORGE SHOLTO See also:GORDON See also:DOUGLAS-See also:PENNANT, and See also:BARON (1836-1907), was the son of See also:Colonel See also:Edward Gordon Douglas (1800-1886), See also:brother of the 19th See also:earl of See also:Morton, who, through his wife, Juliana, See also:elder daughter and coheir of George See also:Hay See also:Dawkins-Pennant, of Penrhyn See also:Castle, See also:Carnarvon, had large estates in See also:Wales and elsewhere, and was created Baron Penrhyn in 1866. Dawkins had inherited the estates from See also:Richard See also:Penryn, who was created Baron Penryn in 1763, the See also:title becoming See also:extinct on his See also:death in 18o8. George Douglas-Pennant was conservative M.P. for See also:Carnarvonshire in 1866-1868 and 1874-188o, and succeeded his See also:father in the title in 1886. A keen sportsman, a benevolent landlord, a See also:kind and considerate employer, See also:Lord Penrhyn came of a proud See also:race, and was himself of an imperious disposition. He came prominently before the public in 1897 and subsequent years in connexion with the famous strike at his Welsh See also:slate-quarries. During his father's lifetime the management of the Penrhyn See also:quarry had been See also:left practically to an elective See also:committee of the operatives, and it was on the See also:verge of See also:bankruptcy when in 1885 he took matters in See also:hand; he abolished the committee, and with the help of Mr E. A. See also:Young, whom he brought in from See also:London as manager, he so reorganized the business that this slate-quarry yielded a profit of something like £150,000 a See also:year. The new men and new methods were, however, not to the See also:taste of the See also:trade unionist leaders of the quarrymen, and in 1897, when the " new unionism " was rampant in labour questions throughout See also:England, a strike was deliberately fomented. Lord Penrhyn refused to recognize the See also:union or its officials, though he was willing to consider any grievances from individual quarrymen, and a protracted struggle ensued, in which his determination was invincible. He became the See also:object of the bitterest See also:political hostility, and trade unionism exerted itself to the utmost, but vainly, to bring about some See also:form of See also:government intervention. Penrhyn strikers perambulated the See also:country, singing and See also:collecting contributions to their funds.

But in spite of every pressure Lord Penrhyn insisted on being See also:

master of his own See also:property, and by degrees the agitation See also:col-lapsed. His death on the loth of See also:March 1907 evoked See also:general and genuine regret. Lord Penrhyn was twice married, and had fifteen surviving See also:children. He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Edward Sholto (b. 1864), who was Unionist M.P. for See also:South See also:Northamptonshire from 1895 to 1900. Peterhouse, See also:Cambridge, in See also:December 1580, being then almost certainly a See also:Roman See also:Catholic; but soon became a convinced See also:Protestant, with strong Puritan leanings. Having graduated B.A., he migrated to St See also:Alban's See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, and proceeded The See also:iron tubular See also:bridge which carries the See also:line over the Nepean ~ M.A. in See also:July 1586. He did not seek episcopal ordination, but is the best of its kind in the See also:colony, while the viaduct over was licensed as University Preacher. The tradition of his Knapsack Gulley is the most remarkable erection of its kind in See also:Australia. There are large See also:engineering See also:works and railway fitting shops at See also:Penrith, which is also the junction for all the western goods See also:traffic. The inhabitants of both towns are mainly railway employes. Pop.

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