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George Rainbird Limited
Corporate body · 1951-

George Meadus Rainbird founded the publishing house George Rainbird Ltd. It acquired Zaehnsdorf Ltd and Wigmore Bindery Ltd in 1954 to 1956. It merged with the Thomson Organization in 1965

Person · 1835-1919

Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist who served as a director of the Jardin d'acclimatation du Bois de Boulogne in Paris from 1865 to 1893. He was the son of the zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilare and grandson of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Corporate body · 1824-1972

The General Steam Navigation Company, incorporated in 1824, was London's foremost short sea shipping line for almost 150 years. It was the oldest shipping company in the world to begin business with seagoing steam vessels