Background
FURNESS, Stephen Wilson was born on May 26, 1872. Son of Stephen Furness of Berwick St. James, Wiltshire, and Alary Anne, daughter of late Dixon T. Sharper of West -Hartlepool.
FURNESS, Stephen Wilson was born on May 26, 1872. Son of Stephen Furness of Berwick St. James, Wiltshire, and Alary Anne, daughter of late Dixon T. Sharper of West -Hartlepool.
Studied at Ashville College, Harrogate.
Member of West Hartlepool Town Council, 1897. Durham County Council, 1898. Vice-Chairman of Board of Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company, Ltd.
Director Furness, Withy and Company, Ltd., Shipowners. Furness and Nephews, Ltd., Rotterdam. Irvine’s Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company, Ltd.
Weardale Steel, Coal, and Coke Company, Ltd. Richardsons, Westgarth and Company, Ltd. Cargo Fleet Iron Company, Ltd.
.South Durham Steel and Iron Company, Ltd. Geo. V. Turnbull and Company, Ltd., Leith and Valencia. British Maritime Trust, Ltd.
Economic Marine Insurance Company, Ltd. Brown’s Dry Dock Company, Ltd. Gulf Line, Ltd.; Free Trade Wharf Company, Ltd.
Member of Hartlepool Port and-Harbour Commission. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Hartlepool, since 1910; Justice of the Peace Company Durham, 1900.
Liberal.
Spouse 1899, Eleanor,daughter of Matthew Forster, C.E., of Mount Brown, Adelaide, S. Australia.