Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm newly opened Severn Bridge

newly opened Severn Bridge

Monument and St Dunstan in the East

What did you do in the Great War

There was again opposition from the usual quarters

in command of HMS 'Amazon'

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm newly opened Severn BridgeCyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.