stevemacca
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Take a bow Micheal Marks (not his real name} of M and S fame and his employer Isaac Dewhirst (not his real name) who supported his business went on to supply M and S with suits and shirts for a century.I’m sure we’ve had many immigrants going back hundreds of years that arrived not speaking English.I’d say most countries have all had immigrants over the centuries that didn’t speak the language when they arrived no big deal.The British Empire made quite a habit of it.
Incidentally his partner Tom Spencer was an accountant employed orginally by Dewhirst was a local Leeds lad who used his profit to drink himself to death and his family was then bought out