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Frederick Rushbrooke : ウィキペディア英語版 | Frederick Rushbrooke Frederick William Rushbrooke (9 December 1861 - 1953) was the founder of Halfords, one of the United Kingdom's largest chains of cycle shops. ==Career== The son of a miller and confectioner from Willenhall in Staffordshire, Frederick Rushbrooke initially established himself in business as a wholesale ironmonger in Birmingham.〔(And it's all thanks to a passion for a penny-farthing bicycle ) The Times, 30 May 2005〕 For recreation he enjoyed cycling on his pennyfarthing.〔 In 1902 he opened a branch of his business in Halford Street in Leicester and called it the ''Halford Cycle Shop''.〔 He bought Burcot Grange, a country house in Burcot in 1927 but ten years later decided to donate it to the Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital as an annex to treat inflammation of the eye.〔(Burcot Grange: History )〕 He died in 1953.〔(Snelson family )〕
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