Curtis Lampson
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(The Illustrated London News)
Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st Baronet (21 September 1806 – 12 March 1885) was an Anglo-American fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Life
Born
He was elected to the board of directors of the
He died at his London house, 80 Eaton Square,
Family
He was married in 1827 to Jane Walter Sibley, of Sutton, Massachusetts,[3] a relative of Judge Solomon Sibley and a distant relation of the Confederate general Henry Hopkins Sibley. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son George. His second son Henry pre-deceased him. His youngest son Norman George was the father of the prominent diplomat
His son-in-law Frederick Locker-Lampson included this pen portrait of Sir Curtis in his posthumously published memoirs, My Confidences (1896): "I am told that as a youth he was wise beyond his years and intelligent in advance of his experience ... He has foresight, judgment, a clear apprehension of men and affairs, a strong will and a sweet temper, and his success in life may be attributed to his own and sole exertions - Sapientia duce, fortuna permittente." His grandson, Godfrey Locker-Lampson, wrote of him:
Wherever he went people would regard him with attention and admiration, for he was tall and broad-shouldered, with a distinguished carriage and handsome head. There was a great dignity about him and yet a gentleness that won you over, a grave somewhat stern expression, but illumined by a smile that was irresistible; and combined with all these, a character for integrity in all his dealings that nothing ever smirched.[4]
Notes
- ^ a b Boase 1892.
- ^ "No. 23183". The London Gazette. 13 November 1866. p. 5994.
- ^ Vermont History, Vermont Historical Society, Vol. XXVIII No. 1, January 1960. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ Godfrey Locker-Lampson, Life in the County. London: 1948
References
- The Times, March 13, 1885, 10a
- Illustrated London News, March 21, 1885, 300
- Wilson, J.G. & Fiske, J. (eds) (1887) Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 3, 602
- Boase, George Clement (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- McConnell, A. "Lampson, Sir Curtis Miranda, first baronet (1806-1885)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15957. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)