Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet


Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet DL was an industrialist who developed Colman's Mustard into an international concern.

Career

Colman was the son of Jeremiah Colman and Isabella Button. Educated at King's College School and St. John's College, Cambridge, Colman joined the J & J Colman mustard business and then served as its Chairman from 1896. He was also Chairman of Commercial Union.
He served as High Sheriff of Surrey from 1893 to 1894 and also became Lieutenant of the City of London. He was created a baronet in 1907.

Personal life

In 1885, he married Mary McMaster of Mitcham, Surrey. They had one son, also Jeremiah, who succeeded his father in 1942.
In 1888 he purchased Gatton Park, a country estate in Surrey. At Gatton Park he amassed one of the largest collections of orchids in the country. He commissioned Henry Ernest Milner to design the parterre.
He was also keen on cricket. He played cricket briefly at Beddington Cricket Club, and from 1916 to 1923 he was President of Surrey County Cricket Club.
He also funded the Colman Library at the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.
Colman's brother in law was the lawyer Charles Tyrrell Giles.