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  • Thumbnail for Ernest Terah Hooley
    Ernest Terah Hooley (5 February 1859 – 11 February 1947) was an English financial fraudster. He achieved wealth and fame by buying promising companies...
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  • point during her life. Teresa Mary Hooley's early life was spent at Risley Lodge, the home of her father Terah Hooley (died 1927), a successful lace manufacturer...
    7 KB (758 words) - 18:42, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anmer Hall
    purchased in 1896 at auction for £25,000 by the famed serial fraudster Ernest Terah Hooley before his first bankruptcy. The Prince of Wales (the future King...
    19 KB (1,609 words) - 08:04, 22 June 2024
  • Australia Ernest Terah Hooley (1859–1947), English and financier and business promoter Frank Hooley (1923–2015), British politician Teresa Hooley (1888–1973)...
    1 KB (189 words) - 21:33, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Simpson Chain
    under the stewardship of the notorious entrepreneur and financier Ernest Terah Hooley, who had earlier acquired the rights to the chain from Simpson. The...
    5 KB (603 words) - 03:16, 25 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Trafford Park
    ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the...
    50 KB (6,289 words) - 17:14, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry John Lawson
    Automobile Mutual Protective Association. In 1904 Lawson, along with Ernest Terah Hooley, was tried in court for fraudulently obtaining money from his shareholders...
    9 KB (1,028 words) - 22:30, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet
    it could not agree terms quickly enough, and so, on 23 June 1896, Ernest Terah Hooley became the new owner of Trafford Park, for the sum of £360,000. Following...
    5 KB (502 words) - 14:52, 24 December 2023
  • persuaded his board to sell Pneumatic Tyre to financier Ernest Terah Hooley for £3 million. Hooley drummed up support by offering financial journalists cheap...
    33 KB (3,487 words) - 20:53, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humber Limited
    Dunlop (France). Negotiations between the parties were completed by Ernest Terah Hooley. The ambitious new monopoly was not successful, disputes between...
    33 KB (3,766 words) - 11:12, 27 December 2023
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    ships. Two years after the opening of the ship canal, financier Ernest Terah Hooley bought the 1,183-acre (4,790,000 m2) country estate belonging to...
    73 KB (8,629 words) - 09:48, 10 June 2024
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    actress Paula Christine Hammond MBE, JP (1944–2017), businesswoman Ernest Terah Hooley (1859–1947), business financier, four-times bankrupt, died in reduced...
    25 KB (2,659 words) - 19:26, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Lawson Johnston
    company. In 1896 the company received an offer of £2 million from Ernest Terah Hooley and the shareholders agreed to the sale. Lawson Johnston, who was...
    5 KB (600 words) - 14:56, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Daimler Company
    four-storey cotton mill in Coventry which was owned by Lawson's associate Ernest Terah Hooley. Despite Simms' later protest and pleas to sell the mill and buy...
    102 KB (12,854 words) - 01:57, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Manchester history
    the world's first planned industrial park by fraudulent financier Ernest Terah Hooley. First cinema in Manchester. 1897 – Rebuilt Corn Exchange first opens...
    116 KB (13,040 words) - 07:46, 1 July 2024
  • February – Ellen Wilkinson, socialist (born 1891) 11 February – Ernest Terah Hooley, financial fraudster (born 1859) 13 February – Pauline Johnson, silent...
    30 KB (2,947 words) - 10:52, 2 July 2024
  • world. Two years after the opening of the ship canal, financier Ernest Terah Hooley bought the 1,183-acre (4,790,000 m2) country estate belonging to...
    42 KB (4,943 words) - 01:14, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Risley Hall, Derbyshire
    house prospered under the ownership of a flamboyant entrepreneur, Ernest Terah Hooley. The lodge in the park is no longer part of the reduced estate. It...
    3 KB (355 words) - 16:29, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Humber
    dealings in cycle company shares brought him into association with Ernest Terah Hooley and into bankruptcy in 1900. Thomas's wife had unsuccessfully petitioned...
    10 KB (1,157 words) - 17:31, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Meyrick Broadley
    Warr. In April 1896 Broadley met the serial financial fraudster Ernest Terah Hooley, and subsequently worked to promote his investment schemes. Newspaper...
    28 KB (3,786 words) - 09:47, 19 February 2024
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