Dudley Docker

**Frank Dudley Docker** CB (26 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1862 - 8 ga watan Yulin shekara ta 1944) ɗan kasuwa ne kuma mai ba da kuɗi. Ya kuma buga wasan kurket na farko a Derbyshire a 1881 da 1882.

## Tarihin rayuwa

### Tarihin iyali, farkon rayuwa da ilimi

An haifi Docker a gidan Paxton, Smethwick, Staffordshire, ɗan Ralph Docker da matarsa ta biyu, Sarah Maria (1830-1890), 'yar dillalin doki Richard Sankey. Matarsa ta farko ita ce 'yar'uwar Sarah, Mary Ann (1826-1849), tare da ita yana da' ya'ya mata uku. Bayan wasu shekaru a matsayin gwauruwa, Ralph ya auri Sarah, tare da ita yana da 'ya'ya maza biyar da mata huɗu. Ralph Docker lauya ne a aiki a Birmingham da Smethwick wanda ya ɗauki alƙawari da yawa na jama'a, gami da Coroner na Arewacin Worcestershire; a lokacin da ya yi ritaya, kwana biyu kafin mutuwarsa a 1887, Ralph Docker shine mafi tsufa kuma mafi tsawo a Ingila. Thomas Docker, wanda ya kafa tagulla na Moseley ne ya fara amfani da dukiyar iyalin Docker; an kafa zuriyar 'ya'yansa maza shida da' ya'ya mata uku a cikin Midlands a matsayin masu sana'a ko maza masu zaman kansu. Duk da amincin Dudley Docker na iyali mai ƙarfi, ba a ba shi ga bautar kakanni ko sadaukarwa ga asalin asali ba; musamman taƙaitaccen asali a cikin Burke's Landed Gentry editions na 1921 da 1937 wanda ya bayyana a matsayin shugaban iyalin 'Docker of the Gables' ya ƙunshi kurakurai da yawa da Docker da kansa ya bayar - ya ba da bayanan da suka dace da kwanakin haihuwar mahaifinsa da mutuwar mahaifiyarsa, da sunan kakan mahaifiyarsa.

Docker ya halarci Makarantar Sarki Edward, Birmingham amma ya bayyana ya yi tsayayya da makaranta kuma ya bar da wuri. Ya kuma yi rashin gamsuwa lokacin da ya shiga ofishin mahaifinsa don nazarin doka. A shekara ta 1881 ya bar kamfanin mahaifinsa kuma ya shiga kasuwancin varnish tare da ɗan'uwansa William . 

### Mai wasan ƙwallon ƙafa
A cikin kakar 1881 Docker ya buga wasan farko na Derbyshire da Yorkshire wanda aka zana. Ya kuma buga wasa a kakar 1882 da Sussex inda ya zira kwallaye 25 a wasansa na farko amma Derbyshire ya rasa ta hanyar 'yan gudu. Daga 1884 zuwa 1886 ya buga wasanni kaɗan ga Warwickshire, wasanni biyu ga Gentlemen of Warwick a 1887 da 1888 da kuma wasa ɗaya ga Warwickshire a 1889 . 

### Paint da varnish
A shekara ta 1886 ɗan'uwa na uku Ludford ya shiga Docker Brothers kuma mutuwar mahaifinsa a shekara ta 1887 ya kawo ƙarin babban birnin cikin kamfanin. Kasuwancin varnish ya girma ya zama mafi yawan kayan fenti, kuma a cikin 1894 kamfanin ya buɗe ofishin London wanda ke nuna nasarar da suka samu wajen samun umarni daga kamfanonin jirgin ƙasa da kamfanonin kaya kuma Docker ya haɓaka sha'awarsa da nasararsa wajen yin yarjejeniya. A cikin 190 ya shirya hadewar kamfanoni biyar masu juyawa a cikin Kamfanin Metropolitan Amalgamated Carriage and Wagon, ɗaya daga cikin manyan haɗin kasuwanci na lokacin wanda a cikin 1911 ya ɗauki mutane 14,000 kuma ya mamaye kadada 475 (1.92 ) na sararin masana'antu. A shekara ta 1906 ya zama darektan Kamfanin Birmingham Small Arms, mai kera makamai wanda kuma ya girma ya zama babban kamfanin babur. A shekara ta 1908 ya zama darektan W &amp;amp; T Avery Ltd., masana'antun kayan auna. Ya zama J. P. cikin 1909 kuma abubuwan da yake so sun bambanta zuwa layin dogo tare da darektan Stratford-upon-Avon da Midland Junction Railway daga 1909 zuwa 1912, Metropolitan Railway daga 1915 zuwa 1933, London, Brighton da South Coast Railway daga 1921 zuwa 1922 sannan kuma Southern Railway har zuwa 1938.  Ya kasance shugaban Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na farko, yana gina tankuna na farko.  Ya kuma kasance darektan Bankin Midland daga 1912 har zuwa mutuwarsa.  Ya kasance daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa Tarayyar Masana'antar Burtaniya.

### Mutuwa, iyali, da kuma sanarwa
Docker ya auri Lucy Constance, 'yar fitaccen lauyan Birmingham John Benbow Hebbert (1809-1887), a cikin 1895. Da farko sun zauna a Rotton Park Lodge, kusa da masana'antar Docker Brothers, kafin su koma Gables, a Kenilworth, kuma, a cikin 1935 sun koma Coleshill House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, inda Docker ya mutu. Ya kuma sami ɗaki a Berkeley Square Mayfair a 1923. Ɗansu kaɗai Bernard Docker ya gaji mahaifinsa a cikin kasuwancinsa.

Docker ya kasance mai ba da gudummawa sosai (£ 10,000) ga Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition a cikin 1914-1916. A matsayin lada ga gudummawa ga nasarar balaguron, Shackleton ya kira daya daga cikin jiragen ceto a cikin jirgin balaguro *Dudley Docker*. Albarka ta kasance mai mahimmanci lokacin da jirgin ya nutse kuma an tilasta wa wadanda suka rasa rayukansu su yi amfani da *Dudley Docker* don tsira.

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