The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

Sir C. Miranda Lampson, Bart.

Among those who have received the highest
honours at the hands of the Queen, for that ser—
vice which England and America unite in consider-
ing so essential to their welfare—the successful
establishment of the Atlantic Telegraph—is Curtis
Miranda Lampson. This gentleman was born in
Vermont, in which State he married. His early
life was passed in the wild hunting grounds of
Canada and the Hudson's Bay Territory. He was
a keen lover of sport, and in pursuing the natural
bent of his disposition he acquired a knowledge, and
established a connection, which was afterwards in-
strumental in enabling him to acquire a great for-
tune and the high rank to which he has attained.
It was not till after his marriage that he abandoned
the wild scenes where his youth had been passed,
when he came to England, and permanently settled
in this country in the year 1834. The knowledge
he had acquired practically as a hunter he turned
to most profitable account as a furrier, in Queen-
street, Cheapside, where his admirable business
qualifications enabled him to divide with the great
Hudson's Bay Company almost all the home and
foreign fur trade of the country. The enormous
extent of these transactions enabled him to amass
a handsome fortune, and gave him a position of
great weight in the city of London. He was
one of the first impressed with the importance
of telegraphic communication with America, and
became a large shareholder and director of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company. For ten long years
Sir Curtis devoted himself to the establishment of
the cable which has now attained so triumphant a
success. During this period he never flinched or
faltered in the task. Others foiled by repeated
disappointment fell off in despair, but he held on
and came in at the end, as one of the three whom
no disappointment could daunt. He invested largely
in English property, and is the owner of a fine
estate at Rowfant, near East Grinstead, whose old
Tudor mansion, a moated grange, is preserved as
a sacred trust. On the reconstruction of the Hud-
son's Bay Company Sir Curtis became deputy-
governor, and he employed his great knowledge of
trade and the business-like qualities which bad
made his own fortune for the benefit of that com-
pany. It will be remembered that Mr. Peabodly,
when founding the magnificent charity which haS
made him famous, invested a large portion of the
trust in the shares of this company, and he appointed
Sir Curtis as one of the trustees. Although Sir
Curtis has not considered it inconsistent with MS
citizenship of the United States to accept
the high honour to which Her Majesty pas
nominated him, he remains a true American.
Throughout his life he has held the strongest prin-
ciples of Republicanism, and remains ardentli
imbued with the sentiments which distinguished the
vast body of his Northern countrymen. Sir Curtis
has two sons, both of whom. were educated at Cam-
bridge, and who are designed to succeed him in the
business, of which they are now partners. The
American people will rejoice to note the great suc-
cess which has attended the career of their country'
man, and will heartily congratulate him, not only
on the acquisition of a large fortune, but of honours
which he can hand down with his English estates
to what we hope may be a long line of posterity.---
Anglo-American Times.