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Sydney Courtauld JP (1840–1899) was a Crepe and Silk manufacturer, and part of the Courtauld family empire in Great Britain ==Personal life== He was born on 10 March 1840 in Bocking, Braintree, Essex. He was the son of George Courtauld (1802–1861) and Susanna Sewell (1803–1888). He married Sarah Lucy Sharpe on 4 April 1865 at the Unitarian Chapel, Islington, London. Children from the marriage included: *Sir William Julien Courtauld 1st Bt. JP (16 June 1870 - 1940) *Sydney Renée Courtauld (1873–1962)〔The women's suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928. Elizabeth Crawford. Psychology Press, 2001〕 *Samuel Courtauld (27 May 1876 – 1 December 1947)〔Ideals and industry: war-time papers. Samuel Courtauld, Cambridge University Press, 1949〕 *Catharine Courtauld (1878–1972)〔The women's suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928. Elizabeth Crawford. Psychology Press, 2001〕 *John Sewell Courtauld MC MP (30 August 1880 – 20 April 1942) *Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC (27 February 1882 – 1967) He was a Justice of the Peace for Essex. He built a house called Bocking Place in Braintree, Essex between 1885 and 1887. The architect was Ernest Flint.〔The Buildings of England. Essex. Nicholas Pevsner and James Bettley, Penguin Books, 2007〕 It was one of the first buildings in Essex equipped with electric lighting. He was a horticulturalist and was the first person who managed to get the Orchid Masdevallia Costaricensis to flower in England.〔The Orchid Grower’s Manual, Benjamin Samuel Williams, London 1894.〕 He donated the Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens to the people of Braintree on 26 November 1888. Sydney Courtauld died on 20 October 1899 in Gosfield, Essex. 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「Sydney Courtauld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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