William Hopper(22 June, 1816, Penicuik – 23 April, 1885, Moscow) was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

industrialist who moved to Moscow to found a machine tool factory there in 1847. He played an important role in introducing

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and association football into

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