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Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges.[1]

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  1. 69 relations: Advertising, American Civil War, Annapolis, Maryland, Artificial intelligence, Berkeley Square, Birmingham, Blue plaque, Bond Street station, Bronchopneumonia, Carson's, Catchphrase, Charles Clore, Chicago, Christmas, Department store, Dolly Sisters, Dry goods, Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Fugger family, Galen Weston, General Post Office, General store, Geneva Lake, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Great Depression, Hampshire, Hanseatic League, Hengistbury Head, Highcliffe, Highcliffe Castle, Hudson's Bay Company, Hyde Park, Chicago, Insulated glazing, Jackson High School (Michigan), Jackson, Michigan, Jeremy Piven, Lake Shore Drive, Lansdowne House, Lewis's, Liverpool, London, Lorenzo de' Medici, Major general, Manchester, Marshall Field, Marshall Field's, Mr Selfridge, Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, Oliver Selfridge, Oxford Street, ... Expand index (19 more) »

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Advertising

Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bond Street station

Bond Street is an interchange station in Mayfair, in the West End of London for London Underground and Elizabeth line services.

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Bronchopneumonia

Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia.

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Carson's

Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (also known as Carson's) is an American department store that was founded in 1854, which grew to over 50 locations, primarily in the Midwestern United States.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Charles Clore

Sir Charles Clore (26 December 1904 – 26 July 1979) was a British financier, retail and property magnate, and philanthropist.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

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Dolly Sisters

Rosie Dolly (October 24, 1892 – February 1, 1970) and Jenny Dolly (October 24, 1892 – June 1, 1941), known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers and actresses, popular in vaudeville and theatre during the 1910s and 1920s.

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Dry goods

Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region.

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Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley

Major General Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, (31 July 1857 – 19 March 1934) was a senior British Army officer.

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Fugger family

The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists.

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Galen Weston

Willard Gordon Galen Weston (October 29, 1940April 12, 2021) was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Galen Weston are British businesspeople in retailing.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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General store

A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise.

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Geneva Lake

Geneva Lake (Potawatomi: Kishwauketoe 'Clear Water') is a body of freshwater in Walworth County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.

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Hengistbury Head

Hengistbury Head, formerly also called Christchurch Head, is a headland jutting into the English Channel between Bournemouth and Mudeford in the English county of Dorset.

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Highcliffe

Highcliffe or Highcliffe-on-Sea is a seaside town in the civil parish of Highcliffe and Walkford, in the unitary authority area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the ceremonial county of Dorset in England.

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Highcliffe Castle

Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute (a founder of Kew Gardens) with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Hyde Park, Chicago

Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, located on and near the shore of Lake Michigan south of the Loop.

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Insulated glazing

Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass window panes separated by a space to reduce heat transfer across a part of the building envelope.

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Jackson High School (Michigan)

Jackson High School is a public high school located near downtown Jackson, Michigan.

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Jackson, Michigan

Jackson is the only city in, and seat of government of, Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor and comedian.

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Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, The Outer Drive, The Drive, LSD or DLSD) is an expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan, and adjacent to parkland and beaches, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lansdowne House

Lansdowne House now 9 Fitzmaurice Place is the remaining part of an aristocratic English town house building to the south of Berkeley Square in central London, England. The initial name was for two decades Shelburne House, then its title matched its owning family's elevation to a higher peerage in 1784.

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Lewis's

Lewis's is an online retailer and homeware brand.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.

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Major general

Major general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Marshall Field

Marshall Field (August 18, 1834January 16, 1906) was an American entrepreneur and the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Marshall Field are American businesspeople in retailing and retail company founders.

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Marshall Field's

Marshall Field & Company (commonly known as Marshall Field's) was an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois.

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Mr Selfridge

Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Mr Selfridge are Selfridges.

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Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, (15 March 1893 – 21 January 1972) was a British businessman from the Lyttelton family who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.

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Oliver Selfridge

Oliver Gordon Selfridge (10 May 1926 – 3 December 2008) was a mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Oliver Selfridge are Selfridges.

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Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pioneer Productions

Pioneer Productions is a British television production company based in London, United Kingdom, specialising in scientific and other documentary productions.

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Putney

Putney is an affluent district of south-west London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Real estate development

Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

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Ripon, Wisconsin

Ripon is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Rose Selfridge

Rosalie Amelia Selfridge (née Buckingham; 5 July 1860 – 12 May 1918) was a property developer before becoming the wife of department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Rose Selfridge are Selfridges.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Sears plc

Sears plc was a large British-based conglomerate.

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Selfridges

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores.

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Selfridges, Oxford Street

Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Selfridges, Oxford Street are Selfridges.

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Spanish flu

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

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Subway (underpass)

A subway, also known as an underpass, is a grade-separated pedestrian crossing which crosses underneath a road or railway in order to entirely separate pedestrians and cyclists from motor or train traffic.

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Syrie Maugham

Gwendoline Maud Syrie Maugham (Barnardo, formerly Wellcome; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s who popularised rooms decorated entirely in white.

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The customer is always right

"The customer is always right" is a motto or slogan which exhorts service staff to give a high priority to customer satisfaction.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gordon_Selfridge

Also known as Earl of Oxford Street, Gordon Selfridge, HG Selfridge, Harry Selfridge.

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