Business: Entrepreneur, Financier, Banker, Businessman

Business: Entrepreneur, Financier, Banker, businessman

Many world famous businessmen have surprisingly either come from Wales or have important Welsh connections. Some have incredible stories, most have quietly got on with business making changes that effect millions but few know their names. Entrepreneurs with Welsh connections include Laura Ashley, Charles Rolls, J.P.Morgan, Sir Howard Stringer and many many more!

Bledry Morgan, related to Sir Henry Morgan

Bledry Morgan Colonel Morgan should not be confused with the buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, Governor of Jamaica. Colonel Bledry Morgan is thought to have been a relative of Sir Henry Morgan and worked with him on a number of occasions. He was an important person in Jamaica between 1660 and 1670. At the taking of Panama by Henry Morgan in 1670 the Colonel commanded the rearguard of 300 men.

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Sir John Jenkins, business man with a connection to Wales (Morriston, Swansea)

Sir John Jenkins He was in the tin plate industry; knighted by King Edward VII in 1881 becoming Lord Glantawe in 1895.

Morriston

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Pryce Jones, business man with a connection to Wales (Powys, Montgomeryshire)

Pryce Pryce-Jones Gave mail-order (catalogue) shopping to the world.(circa 1859)

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Hon Charles Rolls, Monmouthshire

Hon. Charles S. Rolls The first pilot to fly across the channel and back in a single journey. A man with a real zest for life filled with victorian confidence!

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Bob Neill, business man with a connection to Wales (Ely)

Bob Neill The world's greatest craftsman in the art of pyrography (an ancient art of burning designs on wood) and one of the most recognised people outside of Wales for promoting Wales, the Welsh language and the annual Eisteddfod.

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Laura Ashley, business woman with a connection to Wales (Merthyr Tydfil)

Laura Ashley Laura began her highly successful fashion empire in the 1950's with her husband Sir Bernard Ashley from their home in London. In 1961 they moved to Carno, Wales, their business continued to develop, expanding steadily they moved into a disused railway station!

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