Background
He was born at Ashford in Kent the son of Charles Dorman and Emma Page and educated at Christ"s Hospital, West Sussex.
He was born at Ashford in Kent the son of Charles Dorman and Emma Page and educated at Christ"s Hospital, West Sussex.
Christ"s Hospital.
He was sent, at the age of 22, by his family to work at a Stockton-on-Tees iron works where a relative was a partner. Dorman started as a puddler and rapidly progressed in his career. During the 1880s they exploited the new steel making technologies being introduced at that time including use of Open hearth furnaces.
Together they built a large industrial concern, Dorman Long, which by 1914 employed 20,000 people and during the World War I was a major supplier of shells.
Arthur Dorman was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 and a baronet in 1923. Sir Arthur Dorman died in 1931 at Grey Towers, his home in Nunthorpe near Middlesbrough.