Edgar Speyer
✓ Source-basedstableBritish-American financier and philanthropist
United StatesLived 1862 to 1932 · aged 69Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches.
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Logo of the Underground Electric Railways of London, 1907
The Whitechapel Art Gallery
Solid, an anti-German cartoon regarding Germany's opposition to the Anglo-French entente, from Punch, 1911GERMANY: "Donnerwetter! It's rock. I thought it was going to be paper."
Sir Edgar and Lady Speyer, circa 1921
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Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches. He was chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more.
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