1. John Cory was a British philanthropist, coal-owner and ship-owner.
14 Facts About John Cory
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John Cory was born on 28 March 1828, at Bideford, Devon.
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John Cory was the eldest of five sons of Richard Cory by Sarah, daughter of John Woollacott, both of Bideford.
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The family traces descent through Walter Cory of Cory in West Putford, Devonshire, to Sir Walter de Cory, who in the reign of King John married the eventual co-heiress of the Levingtons in Cumberland.
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The firm's shipping and coal-exporting business steadily increased, and the universal demand for South Wales steam coal for navigation led John Cory to conceive the idea of establishing foreign coal depots around the world, one of the earliest being established at Port Said on the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
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In 1883 John Cory became associated with other Rhondda coal-owners in the promotion of the Barry dock and railway, in which he afterwards held a large interest, and became vice-chairman of its company.
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In 1888 John Cory's firm was converted into a limited company, but its entire control remained in the hands of members of the family, his three sons becoming directors, and John Cory himself chairman of the board.
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John Cory was one of the earliest supporters of "General" William Booth.
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John Cory was a member of the Cardiff school board for twenty-three years, and gave annually a large number of prizes for proficiency in Bible knowledge.
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John Cory was one of the original members of Glamorgan County Council when it was established in 1889 and served as a councillor for the Barry ward, and as an alderman, until he was narrowly defeated at the 1898 election.
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John Cory converted the inn at St Nicholas into a temperance house, with reading-rooms and mission hall.
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John Cory died at Dyffryn on 27 Jan 1910, and was buried at St Nicholas, a memorial service, presided over by the bishop of Llandaff, being simultaneously held at Park Hall, Cardiff.
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On 19 Sept 1854, at St Paul's Church, Newport, John Cory married Anna Maria, daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, of Newport, Wales.
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John Cory died in August 1909, leaving by him one daughter and three sons, of whom the second, Clifford Cory, of Llantarnam, Monmouthshire, became Liberal Member of Parliament for the St Ives division of Cornwall in 1906, and was made a baronet in 1907.