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The Pearson firm, started by his grandfather Samuel in 1844 and today known as a Publishing house, initially focused on Construction . He took over the company in 1880 and moved the headquarters to London . An early exponent of Globalization , he built the Dover harbour, docks in Halifax , railroads and harbors around the world, and the Sennar Dam in Egypt . In 1889, Porfirio Diaz invited him to Mexico to build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific . While laying track, his crew discovered one of the world's largest oil fields, the Potrero del Llano. He created the Mexican Eagle Oil Company (Cia Mexicana de Petroleo El Aguila SA) in 1900, which was one of Mexico's largest firms until it was Nationalized in 1938. He later endowed a professorship in the Spanish department at the University Of Leeds . Pearson was elected Liberal M.P. for Colchester in the 1895 General Election and held the seat until 1910. In January 1917, David Lloyd George appointed him as President of the Air Board. He resigned under a cloud later that year after German bombing produced over 600 casualties on June 13. REFERENCES
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