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David Sime Cargill
David Sime Cargill (9 April 1826 – 25 May 1904) was a Scottish businessman. He was the founder of Burmah Oil which expanded to become one of the United Kingdom's largest oil companies.
==Career==
Born at Maryton, by Montrose, in Angus, Scotland, Cargill briefly worked in Glasgow before moving to Ceylon where he established a department store in Colombo.〔(David Sime Cargill at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕
In 1876 he acquired the Glasgow-based ''Rangoon Oil Company'' which was engaged in unprofitable downstream oil activities in Burma.〔 Learning from this experience he established Burmah Oil to acquire oil prospecting licences in Upper Burma, passing on ownership to Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay in the late 1890s, who expanded the business into one of the largest oil companies trading from the United Kingdom.〔
He died in Carruth, Bridge of Weir, in 1904.〔
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