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George Yule (businessman)

This article is about the British businessman and politician in India. For other persons of the same name, see George Yule (disambiguation).

George Yule (17 April 1829 – 26 March 1892) was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad, the first non-Indian to hold that office.[1] He was founder of George Yule & Co. of London (now Synthomer, a FTSE 250 company), and headed Andrew Yule & Co., of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce.[2]

He killed almost 400 tigers during his tenure as Administrator.

  1. ^ Catherine Hall; Sonya O. Rose (2006). At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-139-46009-5.
  2. ^ "Past Presidents The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Kolkata, India". bengalchamber.com. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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