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...Sphere (50,000) and the 119-year-old Illustrated London News (79,000)-and the deal was conducted with the usual Thomson aplomb. As he prowled about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager, Sir John usually travels incognito, often signing on as seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million...
...Though ownership of Mirror stock is widely scattered, King holds control through his own bloc, probably the second largest, plus the proxy of the paper's largest single shareholder, Multimillionaire Shipowner Sir John Reeves Ellerman...
...Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship...
Beginning in 1930, Ellerman worked for five years on the first volume. Day after day he pegged away in the Natural History and British Museums, speaking to no one but the director and technical assistants. Each night he and his wife would pore over the day's notes, and she would draw anatomical sketches...
When the first volume was completed, earnest young Scientist Ellerman submitted the draft of the entire proposed treatise to the British Museum. The honor of publication under museum auspices is a certain stamp of scientific recognition. With a scientist's pride, he did not consider using his own wealth to publish the book on his own. After he had chafed for four years, the museum printed it. The second volume came...