Curtis M. Lampson

Born New Haven, Vermont , he started work as a Clerk before moving to New York and then, in 1830 , to London . He established the business of C.M. Lampson & Co. and became a Naturalised British Citizen on May 14 , 1849 .

He was elected to the Board Of Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company on its formation in 1856 and served it over the next decade. His endeavours, along with those of the other principals, were recognised on November 16 , 1866 when Lampson was created a Baronet .

His other appointments included as deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and as one of the trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund .

He died at rowfant sussex buried at worth abbey

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, J.G. & Fiske, J. (eds) (1887) ''Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', 3, 602

Boase, G.C. (2004) "Lampson, Sir Curtis Miranda, first baronet (1806-1885)", rev. A. McConnell, '' Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography '', Oxford University Press,

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