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William Vestey ( 1859 - 10 December 1940) (later 1st Lord Vestey), was an English shipping magnate. In 1876 at the age of seventeen, he was sent to Chicago by his father Samuel Vestey , a provisioner of Liverpool, England.

William managed a meat canning factory that was financed by his father. In 1915 to 1918 the Vestey families moved to Chicago then to Argentina and back to England. During World War I the company he founded with his brother, the Blue Star Line ( now known as Vestey Group), was a major supplier of Argentine beef to England, and it was for this service to the wartime provisioning of England that William Vestey was made a Baron.

Made Baronet[1] on 21/6/1913 and Baron on 20/6/1922.

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