Robert Theodore Barnswick

Robert Theodore Barnswick is a Barlovian steel maven residing in Braddock (though, as he frequently points out, he also has a summer home in Sudderling, and a few holdings in Saldonia as well). Though he does not enjoy a total monopoly on the market, he is not averse to using cutthroat tactics to undercut competitors, and owns four steel factories in Braddock alone and several more across the rest of the country. His company, Barnswick Greater Steel, founded in 1537, has a notably large footprint on the Barlovian stock market.
Among his many idiosyncracies is a distaste for child labor, at least prepubescent labor, and he permits none of his factories to hire anyone under twelve years of age (though the ones outside of Braddock do skirt this request somewhat). On the other hand, this overture of welfare does not by any means mean he doesn't care about the ruthless pursuit of profit by any means necessary, nor does it mean he supports any other aspects of social justice - quite the contrary, as it happens.
Barnswick has been known on occasion to surreptitiously provide funding to organizations such as the Gaslamp Gang, referring obliquely to these fundings as "charitable donations to the Barlovian Empire," a phrase he also uses for taxes. He is a second-generation member of the Saronshire Hunting Club, and it has been rumored (though not substantiated) that he might be a member of its inner circle.
Category:Inhabitants
Category:Inhabitants of Braddock
Category:Inhabitants of Middleshire
Category:Inhabitants of Barlovia
Category:Men
Category:Born in 1499
Category:Members of the Saronshire Hunting Club
Category:Industrialists