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| Electrical engineer and pioneering contractor, the founder of the construction firm of Balfour Beatty Ltd, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, S England, UK. He served an apprenticeship in a foundry in Dundee, and qualified as a journeyman engineer. After working for a New York company specializing in electric tramways and power plants, he founded his own company in 1909 with an accountant, Andrew Beatty. They built and operated the tramway systems for many towns, and the first major hydro-electric schemes in Scotland, as well as pioneering the National Grid in the 1930s. He was Unionist MP for Hampstead (London) from 1918 until his death. |
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