Background
When his father's cousin Horace Pitt, 6th Baron Rivers, died, the family took the name Fox Pitt-Rivers on May 25 1880.
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George Lane
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Career
In 1878, Fox-Pitt was granted a patent on a light bulb with a platinum-iridium filament. The patent also describes a system for power distribution using incandescent lamps in parallel. On 12 December 1879, Charles Francis Brush founded the Anglo American Electric Light Company Ltd. in the UK and then acquired the patent rights to produce the Lane-Fox incandescent lamp in the same year.
On 24 March 1880, he founded a new company, Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, which took over the previous one. About 1880, Fox-Pitt is said to have successfully experimented with charred plant fibers as the filament material. That was about the same time as the development of the light bulb with carbon filament by Edison in the United States.
By 1883, Fox-Pitt had obtained further patents. Fox-Pitt wrote books on the philosophy of science, education, and social problems. He was temporarily Vice President of the Moral Education League and organized the International Moral Education Congress.
In 1891, he repurchased the patent rights of the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation and built himself a small lamp factory. In 1898, he participated in a railway concession in Ecuador.
Membership
George would spend very little time as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, he would resign a short time later so that defeated Cabinet Minister Charles R. Mitchell could re-gain a seat in the legislature.
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Born
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Nationality
United Kingdom -
Political Party
The Liberal Party