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*[http://www.arklowsc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=9 Arklow Sailing Club’s Cawnpore Cup] was presented by Henry Horsman, born in Cawnpore in 1927. His father, Albert Horsman , born 1892, was a boxwallah who owned and ran, with his brother Harry, the Swadeshi Cotton Mill in Cawnpore. The "Ursula Horsman Memorial Hospital" in Cawnpore is named after Henry’s mother, who died in an aeroplane crash in 1935. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2008-07/1216188740 Details of the Cup] from India-British-Raj Mailing List.
*[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=6&id=5807&gallery=Bradshaw+family&offset=0 William Bradshaw] was appointed assistant weaving master at Muir Mills in 1931 and worked there until 1952
*[http://www.lal-imli.com/profile.html Profile of The British India Corporation] which was registered as a Limited Company on 24 February 1920.to amalgamate a number of companies, most of which were located in Cawnpore:
**Cawnpore Woollen Mills Co. (established 1876). Still in existence as a Government of India Company, (along with New Egerton Woollen Mills Co. Ltd., Dhariwal, Punjab. (established 1882)).
**Cooper Allen & Co. Ltd. proprietors of the largest Army Boot and Equipment Factory in the world – Kanpur (established 1881)
** North–West Tannery Co. Ltd., Proprietors of the largest and the most up-to-date Tannery in the East – Kanpur (established 1881).
** Cawnpore Cotton Mills Co. Ltd. (established 1882).
** Empire Engineering Co. Ltd., Civil, Mechanical, Motor and Constructional Engineers, Contractors and Builders – Kanpur (established 1894).
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