Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st baronet
1806–85
American-born fur merchant and telegraph-cable promoter. Moved to England in 1830 and set up in business as a fur merchant in London. Naturalised a British subject, 1849. Director and vice-chairman of the company laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. Created baronet, 1866.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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