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...would go to Dunhill's, regardless of the fact that control of Dunhill's has long since passed to David Albert Schulte. For shirts he might go to Hawes & Curtis. For jams, pickles & preserves, for shoes and perhaps even for tweeds, he might go to venerable Fortnum & Mason...
...founder of Fortnum & Mason was one Cornelius Fortnum, faithful servitor of Queen Anne. For years he held the unique monopoly of being allowed to take and sell the Court's old candles, for Queen Anne would never allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary...