Facts: - death place: edinburgh , scotland - known for: allan shipping line of montreal - honorific suffix: kcmg - death date: 09 december 1882 - birth date: 29 september 1810 - name: sir hugh allan - nationality: scots-canadian - image: sir hugh allan of ravenscrag , montreal.jpg - birth place: saltcoats , scotland - occupation: empire . builder , shipping magnate , financier and capitalist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hugh allan .
sir hugh allan , -lrb- september 29 , 1810 -- december 9 , 1882 -rrb- was a scottish-born canadian shipping magnate , financier and capitalist .by the time of his death , the allan shipping line had become the largest privately owned shipping empire in the world .he was responsible for transporting millions of british immigrants to canada and the businesses he established from montreal filtered across every sphere of canadian life , cementing his reputation as an empire builder .his home , ravenscrag was the principal residence of the golden square mile .