Mackinnon, William, 1823-1893
1856 founded the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company (1862 renamed the British India Steam Navigation Company); 1860s director of the City of Glasgow Bank; 1873 established mail service between Aden and Zanzibar; 1882 CIE; 1888 founder and chairman of the Imperial British East Africa Company; 1889 created baronet.
Epithet: shipping entrepeneur
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