Author: Pedro Real. KESWICK JJJOHNSTONE
2 º PRESIDENT
OF "THE RIO TINTO Co., LTD"
Born in 1842, was the brother of William and James, descendants of a sister of the founder of the Jardine Matheson & Co., "company established in Hong Kong nineteenth century. Came from a subsidiary of the Company, (Jardine Skinner & Co.,) whose activities are focused on the importation of tea and jute from Calcutta to England, before entering the presidency of Rio Tinto, the appointment received after the death of Hugh M. Matheson in 1898.
At the beginning of his administration in the mining business, had, for 56 years and was 28 that the opium had Legal longer "officially" (1870).
One of his first interventions to assume the new position, was in his address to those attending the Board Gral of shareholders held on April 14, 1898, in the Cannon Street Hotel (London), referring to the following terms the disappearance of his predecessor H. Matheson:
"I'm sure all of you with us deplore the death of our venerable President, who was apparently in good health until a few nights before his death and who looked forward to chairing the Board, which would have been for him a chance to Jubilee. He devoted himself
to protect the interests of the Company since its inception and, as some of you may know, was with their support and financial assistance, "rare in magnitude and liberality, and fighters in his previous years this would hardly have survived.
will not see soon, or maybe never again, a person like him. "
This introduction, the opening of the Board Gral was not new, nor different from other acts of similar characteristics, where the human act "wasted charity and benevolence towards those who disappear from this world, have been contradictory lives . Only the review, with the sole intention of recognizing that the posthumous tributes are accommodated and are welcome at all times.
admit involutions can not contradict that Mr. Steinberg attributed to the first generation of the Keswick family with the opium trade, (Mr. JJJohnstone, between it) but given the personal difficulties to view files " Jardine Matheson & Co., "whose sources, with others, would cast much light on the biography of each member of the clan, does not allow giving an honest view. However, we hope to get Maggie Keswick's book (" thistle and jade") which were probably narrate little known facets of this character.
far, found no evidence that involving the 2 nd President of The Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. is advisable to park in the field of inconcrección a reasonable wait.
While we believe the dive would be great for the funds of the Department of Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge which contains documents, photographs, etc. from the files of the Jardine Matheson, regardless of those that exist in the Rio Tinto Co. in London, which will undoubtedly increase, with everything else, the better knowledge of the socio-professional trajectory of the character.
At the beginning of his administration in the mining business, had, for 56 years and was 28 that the opium had Legal longer "officially" (1870).
One of his first interventions to assume the new position, was in his address to those attending the Board Gral of shareholders held on April 14, 1898, in the Cannon Street Hotel (London), referring to the following terms the disappearance of his predecessor H. Matheson:
"I'm sure all of you with us deplore the death of our venerable President, who was apparently in good health until a few nights before his death and who looked forward to chairing the Board, which would have been for him a chance to Jubilee. He devoted himself
to protect the interests of the Company since its inception and, as some of you may know, was with their support and financial assistance, "rare in magnitude and liberality, and fighters in his previous years this would hardly have survived.
will not see soon, or maybe never again, a person like him. "
This introduction, the opening of the Board Gral was not new, nor different from other acts of similar characteristics, where the human act "wasted charity and benevolence towards those who disappear from this world, have been contradictory lives . Only the review, with the sole intention of recognizing that the posthumous tributes are accommodated and are welcome at all times.
admit involutions can not contradict that Mr. Steinberg attributed to the first generation of the Keswick family with the opium trade, (Mr. JJJohnstone, between it) but given the personal difficulties to view files " Jardine Matheson & Co., "whose sources, with others, would cast much light on the biography of each member of the clan, does not allow giving an honest view. However, we hope to get Maggie Keswick's book (" thistle and jade") which were probably narrate little known facets of this character.
far, found no evidence that involving the 2 nd President of The Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. is advisable to park in the field of inconcrección a reasonable wait.
While we believe the dive would be great for the funds of the Department of Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge which contains documents, photographs, etc. from the files of the Jardine Matheson, regardless of those that exist in the Rio Tinto Co. in London, which will undoubtedly increase, with everything else, the better knowledge of the socio-professional trajectory of the character.
