James Aratoon Malcolm, born 11 November 1866 in Bushire on the Persian Gulf, was a British-Iranian Armenian financier, company promoter, arms dealer and journalist.
[2] In early 1916, he was appointed by the Catholikos George V of Armenia as one of the five members of the Armenian National Delegation to lead negotiations during and after the war.
The Club was originally intended to be housed in an imposing building to be erected on Kingsway in central London at an estimated cost of 150,000 pounds.
In a letter to the editor, published in The Times on 17 June 1922, James Aratoon Malcolm stated that he had been "the `channel of communication`, or rather the intermediary" between the Zionist organization and the British Government in early 1917.
He was responding to an earlier letter published in The Times of 15 June 1922 which had asserted that Sir Herbert Samuel had been "the channel of communication".
[1] In 1888, while still a student at Oxford, he joined with Mihran Sevasly (1863-1935) and Jean Broussali to found Le Haiasdan, a journal published under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Armenian Patriotic Association in London.
[25] That prospectus stated that this company had acquired from the Diggers Venture Syndicate a "treaty" by which the chiefs of a group of tribes in the Suss region of North-Western Africa (around the Noun River) granted a "Direct Trading Monopoly" over that area.
In March 1899 a legal action was commenced by an aggrieved shareholder in the Globe Venture Syndicate (J.P. Foster) seeking a declaration that he had been induced to apply for the shares by fraudulent misrepresentation in the prospectus - particularly in regard to the "treaty".
[26] In June 1900 a winding-up order was made against the Globe Venture Syndicate, and that process led to a public examination of James Aratoon Malcolm as the company's manager, and Arthur Watling as a director in February 1901.
[27][28] These various court processes revealed that the Diggers Venture Syndicate had never had paid-up capital higher than £64, that comprising £20 each from the three founders plus £1 each from the four other initial subscribers required to make-up the legally-required minimum of seven for a registered company.
The chairman of The Gutta Percha Corporation Limited, Sir Edward Thornton, stated in court that he had taken on that post "at the invitation of Mr.
The Canadian Parliament had passed an Act in 1894 creating "The Montreal, Ottawa, and Georgian Bay Canal Company" and empowering it to construct that waterway project.
McLeod Stewart (1847-1926), the leading advocate of the scheme in Canada, travelled to Britain and entered into negotiations with Malcolm's group re.
[35] Advertising the Georgian Bay scheme to the British investing public was commenced with a well-publicized function at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, arranged through Blackwell.
[36][37] Malcolm attended that gathering (held on 25 April 1899) which was addressed by McLeod Stewart, followed by Sir Edward Thornton who had been recruited to be chairman of The New Dominion Syndicate Limited.
One of Malcolm's colleagues in establishing The New Dominion Syndicate Limited, James K. D. Mackenzie, had been recruited in September 1901 by Lawson to chair The Electric Tramways Construction and Maintenance Company.
During the 1902 session of Parliament, the Bill promoted to obtain authorization for the C&NESER scheme played an important role in the major tussle between the two principal competing visions for the future of London's underground railway system: that of Charles Tyson Yerkes and Robert William Perks on the one hand; and that of J.P. Morgan on the other.
The aim of this company, he told the meeting, was to use machinery invented by Peter Burd Jagger (their works manager and consulting engineer) to produce cement-based products at a lower cost, and of higher quality than had hitherto been done.
[51] In mid-October 1899 the Exchange Telegraph Company reported that James Aratoon Malcolm had made an offer to the British War Office to provide 1,000 sharpshooters, "fully-armed with Martini rifles", for service in South Africa as auxiliaries to the Imperial forces.
[1][53] In early 1915 James Aratoon Malcolm sent notices to various British newspapers announcing the formation of the Russia Society "to promote and maintain a permanent and sympathetic understanding between the peoples of the British and Russian Empires ...to disseminate knowledge of each other, among each other ...to encourage reciprocal travel and social intercourse, and generally to establish mutual friendship in its widest and frankest sense."