Researching David Edgerton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 429 people with the Edgerton surname? In that year Edgerton was ranked number 3150 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Edgerton on Ancestry
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Some Famous People called David Edgerton
David Edgerton
David Russell Edgerton Jr. (May 26, 1927 – April 3, 2018) was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the Burger King Corporation, in what would become the second largest burger chain after McDonald's. After serving as a manager of another restaurant, Howard Johnson's, on March 1, 1954 he opened a franchise outlet of the restaurant chain Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida. On June 1 of the same year, he met fellow restaurateur James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation. After leaving Burger King, he went on to start Bodega, a steakhouse restaurant.
Source: David Edgerton, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
David Edgerton (historian)
David Edgerton FBA (born 16 April 1959) is an English historian and educator. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and Imperial College London. After teaching the economics of science and technology and the history of science and technology at the University of Manchester, he became the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London, and Hans Rausing Professor. He has held a Major Research Fellowship (2006–2009) from the Leverhulme Trust. In 2013, he led the move of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine to the Department of History of King's College London.
One of Britain's leading historians, Edgerton has published a number of influential books over 20 years which challenge conventional analyses of science and technology. Significant among them are Warfare State: Britain 1920–1970 (Cambridge, 2005) and The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (Profile, 2006). He has written for such publications as Prospect, the London Review of Books, Nature, Times Higher Education Supplement, and The Guardian, and has often appeared on television and radio.
Edgerton was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2021.
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