Andrew Yule (2 November 1834 – 18 July 1902) was a businessman who founded Andrew Yule and Co.

Early life

Andrew was born in

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, the third and youngest son of Robert Yule, a clothier, and his wife Elizabeth. He had two older brothers, David, a cashier at

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, and

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, also an entrepreneur and trader.Yule Newsletter no. 23 (1998)
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Career

Andrew and George moved from Scotland to

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around 1855. Three years later, in 1858, they formed a partnership as warehousemen. The same year, encouraged by profits to be made in colonial trade, Andrew moved to

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. One of the first businesses he established there was the Hoolungpooree Tea company. In 1866, he formed Andrew Yule and Co and established operations in Calcutta (now

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). The company was one of the pioneers of the extension of the cotton spinning industry to

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had been widespread in Bengal in previous centuries, but

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s (factories) had previously been confined to the city of

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. He also acted as trade representative for several companies. By 1875, he had established interests in jute, cotton and coal as well as in tea. That year, his brother George and their nephew David left England to settle in India.

Later life and legacy

Andrew visited England frequently and finally retired there in 1888, settling in

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(now a part of

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). He died at his residence, in

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Road, on 18 July 1902. He had a daughter,

Annie Henrietta Yule Annie Henrietta Yule, Lady Yule (1 August 1874 – 14 July 1950) was a British film financier and a breeder of Arabian horses. She co-founded the British National Films Company and Hanstead Stud, and commissioned the superyachts of her day. Earl ...

(1874 – 1950), who married her cousin. David eventually inherited all of the family's enterprises. As a wealthy widow, Annie spent the latter decades of her life as a film financier and a breeder of Arabian horses at the

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, alongside their only child, Gladys Yule.Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Yule, Annie Henrietta, Lady Yule (1874/5–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200
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References

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