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- Worker: "Mr. Ferris, sir. Uh, the lad in the factory should be taken to be bandaged by the apothecary."
- Ferris: "Fine. But dock his wages."
- —Rupert Ferris speaking with one of his workers, 1868.[src]
Rupert Ferris
Rupert Ferris (15 August 1830 – 10 February 1868) was a wealthy factory owner of the Ferris Ironworks and Templar, controlling the industries of London during the mid-19th century.
Biography
Rupert Ferris was born to aging parents who divorced shortly thereafter. He became a newly-minted owner much later in an iron factory called the Bow Rail Works, which he dubbed as Ferris Ironworks, known for its maltreatment to its employees. A decade after, Ferris established child labor in his factory due to several police records indicating death of employees through exhaustion.
By 1862, the Templar Grand Master Crawford Starrick purchased the Ferris Ironworks. This factor added to Rupert's financial accounts which he spent on a charitable society in Croydon and for brothels.
He became a target to the British Brotherhood of Assassins and was killed by Jacob Frye in 1868.
Trivia
- The surname Ferris is an Anglicization of the Old Gaelic name O'Fearghusa - a compound of the Gaelic O, meaning "grandson" or "male descendant", and the personal name Fergus, composed of the elements fear, "man", and gus, "vigour, force". The name is also similar to ferrous, possibly referencing Ferris' position as factory owner of the Ferris Ironworks.
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