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	William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1876 at the age of seventeen, he was sent to Chicago by his father Samuel Vestey, a provisioner of Liverpool, England.
		Vestey was made a Baronet [1] on 21 June 1913 and Baron Vestey on 20 June 1922.
		Vestey then married Evelene Brodstone (later Evelyn Vestey) of Superior, Nebraska in 1924.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Vestey,_1st_Baron_Vestey (223 words)

	LASR - Superior, Nebraska - Evelene Brodstone - Lady Vestey, 1875-1941
		After seeing the letter, Edmund Vestey told his assistant manager, "Hereafter, send her in whenever I call for a stenographer, she knows her business and she’s quiet." Evelene’s salary rose immediately to $20 per week, and would keep rising until she was earning $250,000 per year as a partner in the business.
		William Vestey was born in England, the oldest son of a retail butcher of moderate means.
		The principal Vestey residence in the inner suburbs of London was an enormous Elizabethan house situated on 235 acres.
	www.lasr.net /leisure/nebraska/nuckolls/superior/att1.html (1185 words)

	Derek Vestey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Derek Vestey, 2nd Baronet (June 4, 1914 – June 30, 2005) was a nephew of William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey, founder of the Vestey Group.
		Though not involved in the running of the family business (which made its fortune in meat supply and processing), Sir Derek was a leading beneficiary of the tax avoidance trusts set up in 1919 to protect the family's wealth.
		Derek Vestey obituary from The Daily Telegraph, July 5, 2005
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Vestey (121 words)

	Bill Vestey: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Bill Vestey's summary was automatically generated using 12 references found on the Internet.
		Vestey said Sony planned to have made the cuts by March next year.
		Bill Vestey, director pf public affairs at Sony, said: "There needs to be a mechanism of review built in, perhaps once every year, but the first one could be after six months.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/vestey_bill_267825258.aspx (281 words)

	Some Signposts From Daguragu - Speech by the Governor General August 1996
		Sir William was appointed a judge of the Federal Court and President of the Australian Trade Practices Tribunal in 1977, and a Justice of the High Court of Australia in 1982.
		When Vesteys' representatives, accompanied by welfare officers, sought to persuade them to return to work at the station and to leave what was said to be the Vesteys' land at Wattie Creek, Lingiari responded: "Vesteys only got cattle, horse, but not land.
		Vesteys gave an undertaking that the Daguragu community would not be disturbed and the Gurindji, with help from a variety of largely non-Aboriginal sources, began fencing and building.
	suske.its.unimelb.edu.au /166120/pub/dean1996.htm (9004 words)

	thePeerage.com - David Mitchell and others
		William Howarth Vestey, son of Samuel Vestey, 2nd Baron Vestey, on 27 September 1939.
		He was the son of William Armyne and Martha Eure.
		She was the daughter of William Eure, 2nd Lord Eure.
	www.thepeerage.com /p12535.htm (858 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Croydon Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		William Vizard began to build Kingswood Lodge (later renamed Kingswood House) in 1811.
		He was a solicitor involved with one of the most sensational legal cases of his time the divorce proceedings brought in the House of Commons by George IV against Queen Caroline in 1820.
		In 1919, Kingswood was bought by Sir William Vestey who became Baron Vestey of Kingswood.
	www.croydonguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=267714 (190 words)

	Scotsman.com News - First land buyout falls into chaos
		Lawyers acting for the Vestey family, headed by Edmund Vestey, who are selling 40,000 acres of their 100,000-acre holdings in Assynt, Sutherland, for £3 million, say that they are now considering a compensation claim because of the loss the sellers are incurring after a community buyout interest was registered on the land.
		The sorts of costs that the Vestey family has incurred include cancelled advertising, legal and professional expenses in dealing with the issues that the community application has thrown up and any downturn experienced in the property market due to the delay.
		Iain Russell, solicitor with CKD Galbraith, the sellers of the Vestey Estate, said: "As a result of the community’s decision to withdraw its application the sale of Assynt Estate on the open market has resumed and we will be talking to parties who have already declared their interest.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1274862004 (976 words)

	Conacher, Charles William Davy (1881 - 1937) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1913 Vesteys had leased large properties, both in the Territory and the East Kimberley district of Western Australia, beginning in 1914 the building of a meatworks at Paraparap, near Darwin.
		The works closed in 1920; Conacher was transferred to Sydney where he served Vesteys as manager of their Australian Investment Agency whose major interests also lay in the meat industry.
		Never spectacular, loyal to Vesteys, he can be seen, in his later years, as a slightly disappointed man whose dreams had not been realized.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A080091b.htm (587 words)

	fray bentos
		For more than forty years the Vesteys, a Liverpool family, had been big in beef: In 1876, the same year the first refrigerated ship, Le Frigorifique, brought an `edible' shipment of beef from Argentina, the eldest Vestey son, William, was despatched to the USA to buy and ship home anything the family could sell.
		The Vesteys, fiercely protective of their money, packed up and left Britain, setting up the heart of their operation in Buenos Aires.
		William Vestey bought himself a peerage from Lloyd George and got a nasty, truculent letter from George V. The Vesteys had undoubtedly helped the war effort but had helped themselves even more.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /casamirror/fray_bentos.htm (3853 words)

	Guardian \| The young elite 1-10
		It was once said of the Vesteys that they lived 'not on the interest built up by their estate but on the interest of the interest'.
		In those terms life has come unstuck for the family since the collapse of the Vestey empire and the liquidation of the Dewhurst butchers' chain in 1995.
		But don't shed too many tears - the Vesteys were still left with an estimated £650m, at least half of which belongs to the father of William Guy Vestey.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3973128-103644,00.html (2291 words)

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		During World War I she was in charge of the Vestey interests in South America and Australia, and on one occasion she visited the uncharted interior of Australia with only a native guide, becoming the first white woman to enter the area.
		At the age of forty-nine in 1924, she married her employer, Lord William Vestey of Kingswood, London, and became Lady Vestey.
		When a number of passenger ships of the Vestey Blue Star Line, of which she was an executive officer, were torpedoed and sunk, many of her friends and longtime employees were lost.
	www.unl.edu /cather/works/nonfiction/bohlke/interviews/1928a.htm (1457 words)

	Evelene Brodstone - Lady Vestey
		No Cinderella Romance has equaled this story of the Little Stenographer who became the highest paid woman executive in the world and later married her boss, Lord William Vestey.
		Before her work was completed, a revolution broke out and she had to stay until May.
		Bev Beavers is a Portrayer of Lady Vestey.
	www.superiorne.com /evelynbrodstone-ladyvestey.htm (1193 words)

	Vestey Family Crest
		Among these immigrants were the ancestors of the Vestey family, who lived in Northampton.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Vestey coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/vestey-family-crest.htm (571 words)

	Community
		In 1871, at the age of 22, William Louden arrived at the Republican River and after scouting the area decided to settle here, because the land was “superior.” Louden’s log cabin was Superior’s first home, Post Office and general store.
		In her later years Brodstone married Lord William Vestey and resided at Kingswood Castle in London.
		After her death, Lady Vestey’s ashes were sent back to Superior for interment, making her the only nobility to be buried in the state of Nebraska.
	www.brodstonehospital.org /community.htm (487 words)

	Nebraska/Great Plains History & Culture-Notable Nebraskans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Unfortunately, Bryan's place in history is anchored in the film "Inherit the Wind," a fictional account of the "Scopes Monkey Trial" in which he is cast as a buffoonish zealot.
		William F. Cody reflects on his life as express messenger, teamster, buffalo hunter, scout, actor, showman and builder of the West through a series of true-life adventures--from Bill’s perspective, of course.
		William Jennings Bryan had many political advisors, but the closest, and perhaps most influential, was his wife, Mary Baird Bryan.
	www.nebraskahumanities.org /speakers/speakersIIIF.html (3454 words)

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		Lady Vestey grew up in Superior as Evelene Brodstone, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants.
		In 1895, she started as a secretary and then advanced in her company to become the highest paid woman executive of her time.
		Brodstone later married Lord William Vestey and lived in a castle in London.
	www.ci.north-platte.ne.us /Library/cprograms.htm (142 words)

	Collections Treasures
		In 1931 Grace Abbott received this medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences for her service as director of the Children's Bureau and for the bureau's contributions to the welfare of America's children.
		In 1923, Evelene married Lord William Vestey and, at his request changed her name to Evelyn, although, by then, she was known as Lady Vesty.
		Evelene Brodstone died in England in 1941 and her ashes were sent to Superior for burial.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /museum/collect/treasures.htm (1233 words)

	Superior
		Lady Vestey, formerly Evelyn Brodstone, is Superior's most famous former resident.
		Evelyn Brodstone became Lady Vestey when she married Lord William Vestey of England.
		The Lady Vestey Victorian Festival honors Lady Vestey and has been chosen as one of the Top Ten Festivals in the nation.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/16431/places/31719 (265 words)

	vestey - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word vestey:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "vestey" is defined.
		Phrases that include vestey: baron vestey, derek vestey, william vestey
	www.onelook.com /?w=vestey (78 words)

	Oldtime Nebraska -- Stories at Eleven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		She accepted the marriage proposal of Lord William Vestey and became Lady Vestey.
		Even in her last act she maintains contact with Superior; she's buried in the local cemetery and is, in all likelihood, the only member of British royalty buried in Nebraska.
		There is also a tour of the porcelain doll store, where new dolls are created and old ones restored.
	www.olden-times.com /OldtimeNebraska/stories@11/s@e000730.html (575 words)

	PEER PRESSURE
		The four recommendations for peerages that caused the explosion were Sir Joseph Robinson, Sir William Vestey, Sir Samuel Waring and Sir Archibald Williamson.
		'I have spent it.' Sir William Vestey's name had been put forward, so the citation stated, because, as chairman of the Union Cold Storage Company, he had 'rendered immense service' during the First World War by providing cold storage 'gratuitously' for the victualling of the army in various Channel ports.
		As if the Robinson and Vestey names were not enough, Sir Samuel Waring, chairman of the department store Waring and Gillow, was accused in the House of Commons of war profiteering.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-peer-pressure-/2006/04/07/1552225.htm (2473 words)

	Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		3 William Brown b: 12 September 1725 in Nether Plealands, Kirkpatrick Juxta.
		5 William Brown b: 11 December 1796 in Parks of Auchencass, K/J d: 23 February 1839 in Dumfries
		4 William Brown b: 13 February 1763 in Place of Park, Kirkpatrick Juxta.
	www.alastairbrown.com /brown.htm (5135 words)

	William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey (1859-1940), Director of Union Cold Storage Company
		William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey (1859-1940), Director of Union Cold Storage Company
		The online database contains information on 88,710 works, 49,933 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp81641 (75 words)

	LASR - Superior, Nebraska - Chinese Cannon
		The City Park in Superior, Nebraska contains a Chinese cannon which has an interesting history.
		Early in 1922, even though she was retired, Evelene Brodstone was prevailed upon by Lord William Vestey to go to China to straighten out some problems with family holdings there.
		Although delayed in her return by a revolution, she came back the way of Japan, Siberia, Russia, Europe and London.
	www.lasr.net /leisure/nebraska/nuckolls/superior/att5.html (157 words)

	Ben Sherwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For a great weekend getaway, you should try the Lady Vestey Memorial Day Festival in May. It’s a weekend celebration of the town’s most famous citizen, Evelyn Brodstone, born in 1875, and the highest paid female executive of her time.
		In case you were wondering where she got the “Lady Vestey” name: She married Lord William Vestey, a British meat shipping magnate.
		For information about the Memorial Day festival, visit the official website
	www.bensherwood.com /aboutben_superior.htm (168 words)

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