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    William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC, PC (Ire) (31 May 1847 – 7 June 1924) was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman...
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    Wolff. Later, Harland recruited William James Pirrie as another partner. Edward Harland, Gustav Wolff and William James Pirrie maintained a successful business...
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  • 1879, she married her cousin William James Pirrie, who eventually became chairman of Harland and Wolff from 1895. Pirrie was hugely involved in her husband's...
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    Prof William Pirrie FRSE LLD (1807–21 November 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish surgeon and medical author. He served as President of the North of Scotland...
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    died in 1895, William James Pirrie became the chairman of the company and remained so until his death in 1924. Thomas Andrews, Pirrie's nephew, became...
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    Monuments in the grounds of Belfast City Hall James Horner Haslett Mayor of Belfast 1887–88 William James Pirrie Lord Mayor of Belfast 1896–98 Sir Daniel Dixon...
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    and Harold Sanderson were quickly joined by William James Pirrie, the director of Harland & Wolff. Pirrie and Ismay were also among the thirteen directors...
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  • Ten: A Documentary History (2001); ISBN 1-84131-547-8 "William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie". Britannica.com. Edinburgh. Retrieved 14 April 2021. "Alan...
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    he had not been an active in the business for years beforehand. William James Pirrie who became a partner in 1874 was now the most active. Wolff claimed...
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    (1892–93, 1901-04 & 1905-07) Statue of William James Pirrie, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1896–98) Statue of Robert James McMordie, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1910–14)...
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  • Dunmurry 1894: 1895: Harold William Stannus Gray 1896: 1897: Sir William Quartus Ewart, 2nd Bt 1898: William James Pirrie 1899: Hugh Houston Smiley 1900:...
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  • Chloe Pirrie as Ella Mackie Joanne Thomson as DS Lisa Harvey Ramon Tikaram as Solomon Mishra Cal MacAninch as Christian Graham Nicholas Nunn as William Napier...
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    and his wife, Eliza, daughter of James Alexander Pirrie and Eliza Swan and sister of William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie. He was a great-grandson of the...
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  • William Pirrie Sinclair (1837 – 1 November 1900) was a politician in the United Kingdom who was twice elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Party...
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  • Honourable James Cleland Burns, Cunard Line (later Baron Inverclyde) 1900: William James Pirrie, Chairman of Harland and Wolff (later Viscount Pirrie) 1902:...
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    the royal warrant was not altered to reflect this change until 1830). William IV appointed an additional four knights at his coronation, and on 24 January...
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  • William McCammond was an Irish Unionist politician who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1894 and 1896. He was knighted in 1895 and died in 1898...
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  • Burrenwood 1899: William James Pirrie[citation needed] 1900: William Edward Montgomery of Grey Abbey 1901: Roger Hall of Narrow Water 1902: James Nugent Blackwood-Price...
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  • Sir James Henderson (28 April 1846 – 1 May 1914) was an Irish Unionist politician, who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast. He served in this role between...
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  • 1978, he became the first non-Unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast since William James Pirrie, a Home Rule Liberal, in 1896–1898. He stood for APNI in Belfast...
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    RMS (later HMHS) Britannic. All three ships were designed by Andrews, William Pirrie and general manager Alexander Carlisle to be the largest, safest and...
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  • Bob Derkach, June Graham, Bruce Hunter, Ron James, Madelyn Keane, Debra McGrath, Lyn Okkerse, Bruce Pirrie, Jane Schoettle, Blaine Slekirk, Adrian Truss...
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    known as Downshire House and was the London home of Lord and Lady Pirrie. Lord Pirrie was the chairman of Harland & Wolff, a leading shipbuilding firm...
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    Unionist, drafted the Ulster Covenant. William Pirrie Sinclair (1837-1900), tenant-right Liberal MP. Robert James Tennent (1803–1880), Whig MP for Belfast...
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  • gaining a general degree (MA) in 1873, then studied Medicine under Prof William Pirrie graduating MB ChB in 1876. In the same year he joined Bristol Royal...
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    to work designing Olympic-class vessels. The design was overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; naval architect...
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    Cheiro (redirect from William John Warner)
    Secrets includes a detailed account of one of Cheiro's palm readings with William Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolf, builders of the Titanic. Cheiro predicted...
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  • Parke – MMA-Fighter Glenn Patterson – novelist Mary Peters – athlete William Pirrie – co-designed the RMS Titanic Graeme Purdy – photographer and author...
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    president of the IMM, with the support of Morgan. In 1907, Ismay met Lord Pirrie of the Harland & Wolff shipyard to discuss White Star's answer to the RMS Lusitania...
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    Plantation in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where he taught drawing to Eliza Pirrie, the young daughter of the owners. Though low-paying, the job was ideal...
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