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James Hardie (27 July 1851 – 20 November 1920) [2] emigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and established a business importing oils and animal hides.. Andrew Reid, also from Linlithgow, came to join Hardie in Melbourne, and became a full partner in 1895
He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse. He often was presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero. From 1968 to 1970, Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series Death Valley Days.
Publication date. 2009: Publication place: Australia: Media type: Print, e-book: ISBN: 978-0733325809: Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed is a 2009 Australian book ...
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Bernard Douglas Banton AM (13 October 1946 – 27 November 2007) was an Australian builder and, later, social justice campaigner for asbestos-related diseases.He was the widely recognised face of the legal and political campaign to achieve compensation for the many sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after either working for the company James Hardie or being exposed ...
James Hardie Industries is a building materials company specializing in fiber cement siding. James Hardie may also refer to: James Keir Hardie (1856–1915), founding member and first leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom; James Hardie (architect) (died 1889), American architect; James Allen Hardie (1823–1876), American soldier
James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and was its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. He started working at the age of seven, and from the age of 10 worked in the Lanarkshire coal mines.
Hardy served in World War II in the US Army Air Corps as a communications officer in the South Pacific. [6] He earned a degree in industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering in 1948 and worked at his uncle’s downtown Pittsburgh jewelry store before striking out into the building materials supply field at the age of 31.