1. Montague Burton was well-educated, having studied in a yeshiva, but arrived unable to speak English.
11 Facts About Montague Burton
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Montague Burton started as a peddler, then set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903 selling readymade suits bought from a wholesaler.
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Montague Burton had four hundred shops, factories, and mills, by 1929, when the company went public.
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Montague Burton's firm made a quarter of the British military uniforms during World War II and a third of demobilisation clothing.
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Montague Burton declined the offer to be Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1930 but was knighted in 1931 for "services to industrial relations" and was a Justice of the Peace from 1924.
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Montague Burton became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in 1940 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds in 1944.
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Montague Burton died while speaking after a dinner in Leeds on 21 September 1952.
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Montague Burton endowed chairs in industrial relations in the University of Leeds and Cardiff in 1929 and Cambridge in 1930.
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Montague Burton endowed chairs of international relations in Jerusalem, and at Oxford University, the London School of Economics and Political Science and The University of Edinburgh.
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Montague Burton is commemorated in the Montague Burton Residences, which are student flats at the University of Leeds.
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Montague Burton wrote the foreword to the seminal work on the business successes of the Quakers: Quakers in commerce: A record of business achievement by Paul H Emden.