| 词条 | Arthur Dorman |
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|image = Sir Arthur John Dorman (1848-1931).jpg |image_size = 150px |caption = Bromide print by Walter Stoneman for National Portrait Gallery, London |name = Sir Arthur John Dorman, Bt |honorific_suffix = KBE |nationality = British |citizenship = Great Britain |birth_date ={{birth date|df=yes|1848|8|8}} |birth_place = Ashford, Kent, England |death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|2|9|1848|8|8}} |death_place = Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, England |education = Christ's Hospital |spouse = |parents = Charles Dorman, Emma Page |children = |discipline = Industrialist, Dorman Long |institutions = |practice_name = |significant_projects = |significant_design = |significant_awards = }} Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet KBE (8 August 1848 – 12 February 1931) was an important British industrialist. Early lifeHe was born at Ashford in Kent the son of Charles Dorman and Emma Page and educated at Christ's Hospital, then situated in Newgate, London. CareerHe was sent, at the age of 22, by his family to work at a Stockton-on-Tees iron works where a relative was a partner. Dorman started as a puddler and rapidly progressed in his career. In 1875, he went into partnership with Albert de Lande Long to acquire the West Marsh Ironworks in Middlesbrough.[1] During the 1880s they exploited the new steel making technologies being introduced at that time including use of Open hearth furnaces.[1] Together they built a large industrial concern, Dorman Long, which by 1914 employed 20,000 people and during the World War I was a major supplier of shells.[1] Stood as the Conservative candidate for Cleveland. Arthur Dorman was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1918[2][1] and created a baronet of Nunthorpe in the County of York on 21 July 1923.[3][4] FamilyHe married Clara Lockwood in 1873 and together they had four sons and three daughters.[1] His youngest son George Lockwood Dorman was killed in the Second Boer War, and is commemorated in the Dorman Museum. Sir Arthur Dorman died in 1931 at Grey Towers, his home in Nunthorpe[1] near Middlesbrough. His title was inherited by his eldest son Bedford Lockwood Dorman. {{-}}References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Arthur John Dorman at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30460 |date=7 January 1918 |page=366 |supp=y}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=32849 |date=31 July 1923 |page=5238}} 4. ^Leigh's Baronetage External links
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