March 26, 2024
Sir Robert Ropner: a man of parks, parakeets and a place to convalesce
SIR Robert Ropner, who died exactly 100 years ago this month, arrived in the North East as a penniless stowaway from Prussia but rose to become such a successful multi-millionaire ship-builder that he was able to present Stockton with the public park which still bears his name, as we told yesterday.
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