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William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey
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'''William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey''' Bt (
1859 -
10 December 1940), was an English shipping magnate. In
1876 at the age of seventeen, he was sent to
Chicago by his father
Samuel Vestey, a
provisioner of
Liverpool,
England.
William managed a meat canning factory that was financed by his father. In
1915 to
1918 the Vestey families moved to Chicago then to
Argentina and back to England. During
World War I the company he founded with his brother, the
Blue Star Line (now known as
Vestey Group, with Blue Star now part of
P&O Nedlloyd), was a major supplier of Argentine beef to England, and it was for this service to the wartime provisioning of England that William Vestey was made a Baron.
Vestey was made a
Baronet [http://www.hereditarytitles.com] on
21 June 1913 and '''
Baron Vestey''' on
20 June 1922. He was succeeded by
Samuel Vestey, 2nd Baron Vestey (1882-1954).
The first Lady Vestey died in 1923. Vestey then married
Evelene Brodstone (later Evelyn Vestey) of
Superior, Nebraska in 1924. She had been working as a stenographer with the Vestey Meat Packing Plant in Chicago, where she was spotted by Vestey's brother. She would rise through the company, eventually becoming the highest paid female executive in the world.
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Category:1859 births Vestey, William Vestey, Baron
Category:1940 deaths Vestey, William Vestey, Baron
Category:Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Vestey, William Vestey, Baron
Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Vestey, William Vestey, 1st Baronet
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