biography
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Selfridge, Harry Gordon
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1947)
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| biography:
| Businessman, born in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA. Educated privately, he joined a trading firm in Chicago and brought new ideas and great organizing ability into the business, being made a junior partner in 1892. While visiting London in 1906 he bought a site in Oxford St, and built upon it the large store which now bears his name (opened 1909). He became a British citizen in 1937. |
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