Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable
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Ernest Cable, 1st Baron Cable (1 December 1859 – 28 March 1927) was a British-Indian civil servant, merchant and peer.
Born in Calcutta in India, he was the son of George Hebberd Cable and Emily Maria Pickersgill. Cable was educated at Calcutta University and worked then as parter with Bird & Company. From 1903 to 1905, he was member of the Viceroy's Council and Sheriff of Calcutta in 1905. Made a Knight Bachelor in 1906, he was enobled as Baron Cable, of Ideford in the County of Devon on 17 January 1921. Cable was High Sheriff of Devon in 1916, and further director of the Western Assurance Company, of the Tanganyika Development Company as well as of the British America Assurance Company. He died in London and was buried in Ideford in Devon on 31 March 1927.
On 10 October 1888, he married Lilian Sarah Sparkes, daughter of Weston Joseph Sparkes. They had two daughters and one son, who died young, so that the barony became extinct.
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- thePeerage. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
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