Old travel Blog photograph of Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, Scotland. Lord Cowdray of Midhurst who was born Yorkshire, England, in 1856 was a successful businessman whose Company built Harbours and Railways. The Pearson family must have given Sussex a jolt when they arrived in 1909. Weetman Dickinson Pearson was an industrialist who built London’s Blackwall Tunnel and Dover Harbour. Overseas, he transformed Mexico City, acquiring a few oilfields along the way. In due course, the family would go on to buy everything from the Financial Times to Chateau Latour. With such wealth came the usual upward mobility. Weetman became a baronet in 1894, Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount Cowdray in 1917. He was also an MP and during the 1st World War became a Government Minister in charge of building aeroplanes. Lord Cowdray and his wife had unusual medals made to give to friends as a token of their friendship; a portrait of Lord Cowdray appears on one side with Lady Cowdray on the other. Lord Cowdray owned estates in Aberdeenshire and in the south of England and gave his name to the Cowdray Hall which is part of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
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