20-563: The Eastern Telegraph Company was founded in 1872. Its founding chairman was by John Pender , with Sir James Anderson filling the role of Managing Director . It was to become the largest cable operating company in the world. The company was formed out of several smaller telegraph companies: The company is now a dormant subsidiary of Cable & Wireless Communications , part of Liberty Latin America. John Pender Sir John Pender KCMG GCMG FSA FRSE (10 September 1816 – 7 July 1896)
40-443: A son John Denison Pender (1855–1929) and two daughters Marion Denison Pender (1856–1955), who married George William Des Voeux , and Anne Denison Pender (1853–1902). The girls were painted in an Aesthetic Movement portrait titled "Leisure Hours" by John Everett Millais in 1864 Detroit Institute of Arts . Pender is buried in the grounds of All Saints' Church, Rectory Lane Foots Cray with a fine but simple Celtic cross memorial, and
60-621: Is also remembered via the inauguration of the Pender Chair from the money raised by the memorial fund at the time of his death. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Jabez Balfour , Pender founded the investment underwriting firm the Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited in December 1887. Attribution: Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet (28 September 1841 – 20 May 1921)
80-559: The Kaiser Wilhelm 's schooner Meteor III (Archibald Cary Smith design, 1902); the prize was presented to him by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales . It was rumoured at the time that the Prince gave up yacht racing in favour of horse racing (at which he was very successful) as his Yacht Britannia regularly lost to the Kaiser's yawl Meteor II ( George Lennox Watson design, 1896). James Pender Bt
100-604: The Sir Thomas Lipton 's Shamrock and Myles Burton Kennedy 's White Heather II (both Fife designs) in the Cowes regatta and the King's Cup. James Pender's other yachts Lamorna and Florinda (later rechristened Gosport Mistake and Siesta ) were all built and designed by Camper & Nicholsons . Pender married Mary Rose Gregge-Hopwood of Hopwood Hall . They lived at Donhead House, Donhead St Andrew , Wiltshire. Sir James Pender
120-409: The by-election in 1889 , and again represented Wick Burghs from 1892 to 1896. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1888 and was promoted in 1892 to be G.C.M.G. His eldest son James (b. 1841) Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet , who was MP. for Mid Northamptonshire in 1895–1900, was created a baronet in 1897; and his third son, John Denison-Pender (b. 1855), was created a K.C.M.G. in 1901, the year in which he
140-552: The Atlantic Telegraph Company) and The Gutta Percha Company and Glass, Elliott (Greenwich, London) merged into the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company 'Telcon' (which was taken over decades later by British Insulated Callender's Cables ), and laid the first successful cable in 1866 and ended up manufacturing and laying all of Eastern Telegraph's cables and most of the submarine telegraph cables of
160-637: The Eastern Telegraph Company (the amalgamation of those 32 telegraph companies), became Cable & Wireless. The new name was designed to more clearly reflect the combined radio and cable services which it offered, without reference to the Empire. Cable & Wireless is one of the world's leading international communications companies. It operates through two standalone business units. International and Europe, Asia & U.S. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Jabez Balfour , Pender founded
180-555: The investment underwriting firm the Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited in December 1887. Pender represented Totnes in parliament as a Liberal MP in 1862 to 1866 (the seat was disenfranchised by the Reform Act 1867), and Wick Burghs from 1872 until his defeat in 1885. He was unsuccessful Liberal Unionist candidate in Wick Burghs in 1886 and in Govan at
200-419: The rest of the world. He founded 32 telegraph companies, including Eastern Telegraph Company , Eastern and South African Telegraph, Western Telegraph Europe and Azores Telegraph Company, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, London Platino-Brazilian Telegraph Company, Pacific and European Telegraph Company which later became Cable & Wireless . In 1934, Imperial and International Communications, formerly
220-542: Was a British businessman, yachtsman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1900. Pender was the eldest son from Sir John Pender's first marriage to Marion Cairn. His father was the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company , which later became Cable & Wireless. His younger half-brother was Sir John Denison-Pender , father of John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender . He
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#1732844488823240-465: Was a Director of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon) taken over decades later by British Insulated Callender's Cables , Director Globe Telegraph Trust, Director Direct United States Cable Company Ltd , Director Eastman Kodak New Jersey , and the Chairman of Eastman Kodak (UK) from 1898 until 1913. He unsuccessfully contested Northamptonshire Mid at the 1892 general election . He
260-748: Was a Scottish submarine communications cable pioneer and politician. Pender was born in the Vale of Leven , Scotland , the son of James Pender and his wife, Marion Mason. He was educated at Glasgow High School. He became a successful merchant in textile fabrics, first in Glasgow , then in Manchester (where he had a warehouse in Peter Street near The Great Northern Warehouse ). He lived at Middleton Hall, County Linlithgow, Foots Cray Place , Sidcup, Kent, and Arlington House, 18 Arlington Street London. In London 1866, Pender
280-518: Was elected at the 1895 general election also sat as Member of Parliament for Mid Northamptonshire, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1900 general election . In 1897 he was made a baronet , of Thornby Hall in the County of Northampton. In 1902 Pender won the King's Cup at the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta at Cowes with his yawl Brynhild ( Charles E. Nicholson design, 1899), beating
300-659: Was living at Footscray Place in Sidcup . Pender also had interests in railways and was persuaded to invest in the Isle of Man Steam Railway . As a result of this, No. 3 was named Pender in his honour. He was a director of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway in the United States, which connected major midwestern cities and stimulated their economies. In 1883 he founded Yule Ranch in western North Dakota. Pender, Nebraska
320-474: Was named for him. He also amassed a considerable collection of paintings, including some of the works of J. M. W. Turner , including Giudecca La Donna Della Salute and San Georgio, a view of Venice. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841 and arguably Turner's best work, it was sold in 1897 for 1,650 guineas to Donald Currie . A century later it broke all auction records for works by a British artist when it
340-708: Was sold in parts the year after John Pender's death. At the time of his death in Foots Cray Place, Kent, on 7 July 1896, he controlled companies having a capital of 15 million sterling and owning 73,640 nautical miles (136,380 km) of cables (one third of the cables in the world); these cables formed the base of the networks that years later developed into the World Wide Web. Pender was married twice: firstly in 1840 to Marion Cairns, who died giving birth to his son Henry in 1841 (their eldest son James survived); and in 1851 he married Emma Denison (d.1890). They also had
360-501: Was sold to Steve Wynn (entrepreneur) through Christie's (New York) for US$ 35.8 Million in April 2006 This painting is one of four of Turner's paintings of Venice to be in private hands. Also in Pender's collection were the works An Event in the forest by Landseer, 'Portrait of Princess Sobieski' by Joshua Reynolds , and works by John Everett Millais , Gainsborough, and Canaletto. The collection
380-739: Was the Rear Commodore of Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1904, and during that year he won the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club regatta with Brynhild at the Kieler Yacht-Club and was presented with the prize by the Kaiser, who had anonymously (as he always used to at the Kiel Yacht Club) donated that prize to the Kiel Yacht Club in the name of 'A friend of Sailing'. In 1908, Pender's new Camper & Nicholsons 23mR Brynhild II defeated
400-601: Was the leading financier/director and Chairman of the Companies involved who, with his colleagues, undertook the first successful laying of the transatlantic cable from Valentia Island off the coast of Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador . This cable was the most successful and commercially viable of all the transatlantic cables and was 100% British financed, unlike the previous transatlantic cable-laying attempts, which had had some financial backing from American Investors. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company (formerly
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