Robert Coleman

Robert Coleman may refer to:

Robert Coleman (sailor)

Robert Henry Schofield Coleman MC (1883 – 1 January 1960) was a British sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Olympics

Coleman was a crew member of the British boat Ancora, which won the gold medal in the 7 metre class.

Military service

Coleman was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, on 15 December 1914. He married Constance Irene (Connie) Machin on 23 August 1915 in Reigate. He served in France from November 1915, and was seconded to the 63rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, on 23 April 1916. On 19 August 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant, with seniority from 1 June 1916.

He was awarded the Military Cross on 2 April 1919, which was gazetted in December. His citation read:

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Robert Coleman (industrialist)

Robert Coleman (November 4 [O.S. October 23] 1748 - August 14, 1825) was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from a holding clerkship at a prothonotary's office in Philadelphia to bookkeeper at Cornwall Iron Furnace to becoming Pennsylvania's first millionaire.

Iron baron

Coleman was born in County Donegal, and arrived in Philadelphia from Ireland in 1764. After serving as a clerk and bookkeeper he went on to acquire a lease on Salford Forge near Norristown in 1773 and immediately made a sizeable profit by manufacturing cannonballs and shot at Salford and Elizabeth Furnaces. He then used his profits to purchase a two-thirds share of Elizabeth Furnace, shares of Cornwall and the Upper and Lower Hopewell Forges (not the similarly named Hopewell Furnace), and ownership of Speedwell Forge. Soon Coleman was able to construct Colebrook Furnace, purchase the rest of Elizabeth Furnace and acquired 80% ownership of Cornwall Furnace and the ore mines nearby. His business acquisitions and the profits turned from them enabled him to become the first millionaire in the history of Pennsylvania.