George Herbert Strutt

George Herbert Strutt (21 April 1854 – 17 May 1928), was a cotton mill owner and philanthropist from Belper in Derbyshire.

[2] Strutt bought the Scottish Glensanda estate where his son was lost and was found as a clothed skeleton five years later.

[5] At these 24,000-acre (97 km2) estates he built cottages and pony paths, enlarged the existing house and a dam in Glen Galmadale to hold water that could be used to keep the River Galma in flow (and fish) when there was a drought.

[1] In 1907, he completed a long debate with the education authorities and was able to fund an elementary school for the children of Belper and its surrounding Derbyshire villages.

In 1910, he funded a public swimming pool in Belper[4] and within four years he gave an additional £5,000 to expand the school's facilities.

This time he gave land which was used to create the Memorial Gardens to remember those who had died in the First World War.

His clothed skeleton was discovered half a mile from his home by forestry workers, but it was too late to ascertain his cause of death.