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Jeffry Hall Brock (1850–1915) was a Canadian businessman who was also politically active at the time of Sir John A. Macdonald. He had a significant influence on the Canadian insurance industry (Great-West Life turned out be the second biggest insurance conglomerate in Canada, started the first Western Canada based insurance company), politics (rallied against high tariffs and the railway monopoly). During his tenure as managing director of Great-West Life the company's share of sales in Canada's insurance market rose from 0.5% to 13.8%. He is a member of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame Companions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=the order )〕 ==Personal life== He grew up in Guelph, Ontario, the son of Thomas Rees Brock and Eleanor Thompson and brother to William Rees (was a partner in Ogilvy & Company) where he attended both public and private schools. The youngest of 11 children, he showed strong interest in business and entrepreneurship early on, selling things at the age of 15 four years before moving to the United States where he worked as a salesman in St. Louis, Missouri. After some time there he left for New York where he became business representative for R. G. Dunn & Company (he left Guelph almost immediately after finishing high school).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jeffrey Hall Brock (1850-1915) )〕 In 1876 when he was living in Toronto he married Louisa Gillespie, his only wife with whom he had 12 children. His strong views regarding the ease of doing business in western Canada and being against monopolies (which resulted in high insurance premiums) led him to politics where he helped found the liberal party of Manitoba. He also served as acting warden of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, joined Manitoba Health by appointment in 1893 and was director of the Northern Trusts Company, in 1905 became a founding member of the St. Charles Country Club. Four of his children pre-deceased him. 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「Jeffry Hall Brock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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