Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet, chairman of J & J Colman Limited

Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet, DL (24 April 1859 - 16 January 1942) was an industrialist who developed Colman's Mustard into an international concern.

Career

Colman was the son of Jeremiah Colman (1807 - 1885) and Isabella Button.[1] Educated at King's College School and St. John's College, Cambridge,[2] Colman joined the J & J Colman mustard business and then served as its Chairman from 1896.[3] He was also Chairman of Commercial Union.[3]

He served as High Sheriff of Surrey from 1893 to 1894 and also became Lieutenant of the City of London.[1] He was created a baronet in 1907.[4]

Personal life

In 1885, he married Mary McMaster of Mitcham, Surrey.[5] They had one son, also Jeremiah, who succeeded his father in 1942.

In 1888 he purchased Gatton Park, a country estate in Surrey.[6] At Gatton Park he amassed one of the largest collections of orchids in the country.[3] He commissioned Henry Ernest Milner to design the parterre.[7]

He was also keen on cricket and from 1916 to 1923 he was President of Surrey County Cricket Club.[3]

He also funded the Colman Library at the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.[3]

In 1936 he was the recipient of the Silver Fish Award, presented by the founder of Scouting, Lord Baden-Powell, for "making possible" the extension to London's East End Scouting home, Roland House.[8]

Colman's brother in law was the lawyer Charles Tyrrell Giles.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  2. ↑ "Colman, Jeremiah (CLMN878J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
  4. ↑ "No. 28084". The London Gazette. 29 November 1907. p. 8331.
  5. ↑ "Sitter: Lady Mary Colman, née McMaster (d. 1954)". Lafayette Negative Archive.
  6. ↑ Gatton Park archive
  7. ↑ "The Park & Gardens, the Parterre", Gatton Trust, archived from the original on 11 April 2015, retrieved 11 April 2015
  8. ↑ "Rest of the news". Daily Herald. London, England. 23 November 1936. p. 11.
  9. ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 859


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