George Yule (businessman)

George Yule (17 April 1829 – 26 March 1892) was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad, the first non-Indian to hold that office. He was founder of George Yule & Co. of London (now Synthomer, a FTSE 250 company), and headed Andrew Yule & Co., of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce.

This article is about the British businessman and politician in India. For other persons of the same name, see George Yule (disambiguation).

He killed almost 400 tigers during his tenure as Administrator.

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