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Baron Emile Beaumont D'Erlanger (4 June 1866 – 24 July 1939) was a merchant banker.〔(D'Erlanger, Baron Emile Beaumont in the Dictionary of National Biography )〕 ==Life== He was the second eldest son of Frédéric Emile d'Erlanger, a banker working in Paris at the French branch of Emile Erlanger and Company and Marguérite Mathilde Slidell (1842–1927). His older brother, Baron Raphael Slidell d'Erlanger, who might have been more likely to follow his father into banking, was instead a scientist and professor at Heidelberg. Emile followed the banking route and from his father he was entrusted with presidency of the railway and tramway companies including the New General Traction Company in England. In 1891 he became a naturalised British subject.〔Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 4, November 1918-August 1919. W. K Hancock, Jean Van Der Poel, Cambridge University Press, 5 Apr 2007〕 From 1911 he was chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company (the predecessor of EuroTunnel) and financed its design.〔Channel tunnel visions, 1850-1945: dreams and nightmares, Keith M. Wilson, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994〕 The company also financed the building of railways in Rhodesia, Angola and the Congo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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