Henry Royce

Entrepreneur

Birthday March 27, 1863

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace England

DEATH DATE Apr 22, 1933 (70)

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About

1st Baronet of Seaton and car designer who co-founded the Rolls-Royce automobile company.

Before Fame

He grew up on a flour mill, which failed. After his father's death in 1872, he worked selling newspapers and delivering telegrams. He only attended one year of school.

Trivia

He became an apprentice at the Great Northern Railway company in 1878. Later he worked at a tool-making company in Leeds and installed theatre lighting for the Electric Light and Power Company.

Family Life

He married Minnie Punt in 1893.

Associated With

He lived by the motto, "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble," and was awarded the OBE at the end of World War I, which was started by the assassination of politician Franz Ferdinand.