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5 unusual facts about Suez Canal Company


Brocklebank baronets

His grandson, the third Baronet, was a Director of the Cunard Steamship Company, of the Suez Canal Company and of the Great Western Railway.

Charles James Monk

Monk was President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom from 1881 to 1884 and became a director of the Suez Canal Company in 1884.

Charles Rivers Wilson

Whilst holding this position, Wilson visited Egypt in 1876 and he was appointed a government director of the Suez Canal Company.

David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

Apart from his political and legal career he was a director of the Suez Canal Company, Chairman of the North London Railway for many years and was a director of the Central London Railway at its opening in 1900..

Hassan al-Banna

He was appalled by the many conspicuous signs of foreign military and economic domination in Isma'iliyya: the British military camps, the public utilities owned by foreign interests, and the luxurious residences of the foreign employees of the Suez Canal Company, next to the squalid dwellings of the Egyptian workers.



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