Wale Adebanwi
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John Ellis (guitarist)
John Ellis( born 1 June 1952, Kentish Town, London) is an English guitarist and songwriter.
Edward V. Hartford
Edward Vassallo Hartford (May 28, 1870 - June 30, 1922) was the founder and President of the Hartford Suspension Company who perfected the automobile shock absorber.
The middle son of A&P owner George Huntington Hartford and Marie Josephine Ludlum, Edward was the only son not involved in day-to-day operations of the food chain.
However, starting in 1903, he was Secretary of the A&P corporation and along with his brothers George and John, he was also one of the three trustees who controlled the company's stock after his father died.
Hartford was married to Henrietta Guerard Pollitzer (January 4, 1881 - June 3, 1948) and had two children: Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Bryce (August 20, 1902 - June 8, 1992) and Huntington Hartford (April 18, 1911 - May 19, 2008).
A Christian Scientist, he refused to see a doctor and died at age 51.
George Huntington (priest)
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R. John Ellis
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John Ellis (Harwich MP)
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John Ellis (Australian cricketer)
John Ellis( 9 May 1890 – 26 July 1974) was an Australian cricketer.
He played 101 first- class cricket matches for Victoria between 1918 and 1930.
Huntington Hartford
George Huntington Hartford II( April 18, 1911 – May 19, 2008) was an American businessman, philanthropist, stage and film producer, and art collector.
He was also heir to the A&P supermarket fortune.
After his father's death in 1922, Hartford became one of the heirs to the estate left by his grandfather and namesake, George Huntington Hartford.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1934, he only briefly worked for A&P.
For the rest of his life, Hartford focused on numerous other business and charitable enterprises.
He owned Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and had numerous other business and real estate interests over his lifetime including the Oil Shale Corporation( TOSCO), which he founded in 1955.
Hartford was once known as one of the world's richest people.
His final years were spent living in the Bahamas with his daughter, Juliet.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
George Huntington Hartford
George Huntington Hartford( September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company( A&P) from 1878 to 1917.
During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest retailer.
He joined the firm as a clerk in 1861 and quickly assumed managerial responsibilities.
When A&P's founder, George Gilman, retired in 1878, Hartford entered into a partnership agreement and ran the company until the founder's death in 1901.
In the settlement of Gilman's estate, Hartford acquired control of the company and ultimately purchased the interests of Gilman's heirs.
Hartford was born on a farm in Augusta, Maine, and started his retail career at age 18 in Boston.
By 1861, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, where he married Marie Josephine Ludlum( 1837- 1925).
They had three sons and two daughters.
Although he was known to be a private person, Hartford was elected Mayor of Orange, New Jersey in 1878 and served for 12 years.
Hartford retired from the active management of the business about 1907 or 1908 and turned the firm over to two of his sons, George Ludlum Hartford( 1864- 1957) and John Augustine Hartford( 1872- 1951).
He continued as an advisor while they expanded the firm, which had become the country's largest retailer by 1915.
Hartford died in 1917, aged 84, and was interred at Rosedale Cemetery, in Orange, New Jersey.
Hartford ’s estate was worth$ 125 million.
The press respected that he was a private man, and there were few obituaries about him.
" To immortalize outstanding American merchants", Joseph Kennedy in 1953 commissioned a bronze bust of Hartford, four times life size, along with seven other men, in what came to be known as the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame in Chicago.
By 1930, A&P operated approximately 16,000 stores and became the first retailer to report combined revenue of US$ 1 billion.
The" Time" magazine published on November 13, 1950, had Hartford's sons George and John on its front cover.
" Time" wrote," the familiar red- front
A& P store is the real melting pot of the community, patronized by the boss's wife and the baker's daughter, the priest and the policeman.
To foreigners A& P's vast supermarkets are among the wonders of the age; to the US middle class, they are one of the direct roads to solvency.
' Going to the A& P' is almost an American tribal rite."
" Time" also wrote in 1950," Of every dollar the U.S. spends on food, about 10 ¢ is passed over A& P counters—a massive yearly total of$ 2.9 billion.
Next to General Motors, the A&P sells more goods than any other company in the world.
The New York Times", in an editorial on September 7, 2011, wrote that Hartford's sons George and John" were among the 20th century ’s most accomplished and visionary businessmen."
The" Wall Street Journal", in an editorial on August 29, 2011, wrote," Together the brothers, neither of whom had finished high school, built what would be, for 40 years, the largest retail outlet in the world."

Question: Who was born first, John Ellis (Australian Cricketer) or George Huntington Hartford?
Answer: George Huntington Hartford