George Yule (businessman)

This article is about the British businessman and politician in India. For other persons of the same name, see George Yule (disambiguation).

George Yule (17 April 1829 – 26 March 1892) was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad, the first non-Indian to hold that office.^[1] He was founder of George Yule & Co. of London (now Synthomer, a FTSE 250 company), and headed Andrew Yule & Co., of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce.^[2]

He killed almost 400 tigers during his tenure as Administrator.

Merchant in England and India

Around 1855 George Yule and his brother Andrew Yule moved to Manchester and in 1858 they established a warehouse partnership there. The business flourished, enabling George Yule to reside at Platt Hall, Manchester, and at 22A Austin Friars (near the Bank of England in the City of London), while his brother moved to India. In 1875 George Yule, accompanied by their nephew David Yule (son of the third brother, David), joined Andrew in India. George, who was childless, served as the principal director of the various family enterprises. Andrew's daughter Annie married her cousin David and the wealth was consolidated over the generations.

George Yule is interred at Dunnottar kirkyard.

References

1. Catherine Hall; Sonya O. Rose (2006). At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-139-46009-5.
2. "Past Presidents The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Kolkata, India". bengalchamber.com. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

Further reading

• "Past Presidents of Indian National Congress". Indian National Congress. Archived from the original on 15 January 2002. Retrieved 28 November 2012.