SIR

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• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

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• SIR JOHN PENDER (1816—1896)

PENDER (1816—1896)  , British cable pioneer, was born in the Vale of Leven, Scotland, on the loth of September 1816, and after attending school in Glasgow became a successful merchant in textile fabrics in that city and in Manchester . His name is chiefly known in connexion with submarine cables, of which on the commercial side he was an important promoter . He was one of the 3.15 contributors who each risked a thousand pounds in the Transatlantic Cable in 1857, and when the Atlantic Telegraph Company was ruined by the loss of the 1865 cable he formed the Anglo-American Telegraph Company to continue the work, but it was not till he had given his personal guarantee for a quarter of a million pounds that the makers would under-take the manufacture of a new cable . But in the end he was justified, and telegraphic communication with America became a commercial success . Subsequently he fostered cable enter-prise in all parts of the world, and at the time of his death, which occurred at Footscray Place, Kent, on the 7th of July 1-896, he controlled companies having a capital of 15 millions sterling and owning 73,640 nautical miles of cables . He represented Wick Burghs in parliament from 1872 to 1885 and from 1892 to 1896 . He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1888 and was promoted in 1892 to be G.C.M.G . His eldest son James (b . 1841), who was M.P. for Mid Northamptonshire in 1895—1900, was created a baronet in 1897; and his third son, John Denison (b . 1855), was created a K.C.M.G. in 1901 .