Bjarne Aagaard collection 1911-1949

Aagaard, Bjarne, 1873-1956

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Bjarne Aagaard was born in 1873 at Sandjeford, Norway. At the age of fifteen he went to sea, visiting North and South America before entering a shipping office in Glasgow. By 1892, he had become manager of the firm's branch in Greenock and the following year he moved to Hamburg where he started his own shipping office in 1898. At the request of the Norwegian shipping lines, Aagaard established a successful firm in Hong Kong in 1904, with branches in Kobe and Yokohama. After travelli...

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

Hays Gordon

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Rudmose-Brown Robert Neal 1879-1954

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Aagaard, Bjarne, 1873-1956

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Bjarne Aagaard was born in 1873 at Sandjeford, Norway. At the age of fifteen he went to sea, visiting North and South America before entering a shipping office in Glasgow. By 1892, he had become manager of the firm's branch in Greenock and the following year he moved to Hamburg where he started his own shipping office in 1898. At the request of the Norwegian shipping lines, Aagaard established a successful firm in Hong Kong in 1904, with branches in Kobe and Yokohama. After travelli...