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Sir Edward Harland was a shipbuilder who founded Harland & Wolff, one of the largest shipbuilding firms in the world. Edward Harland was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, in May 1831. He served an apprenticeship at the Newcastle shipbuilding firm, Robert Stephenson & Co. and later worked as a draughtsman at J. & G. Thomson, a marine engine builder in Glasgow. Harland subsequently managed the firm of Thomas Toward in Newcastle. He moved to Belfast in December 1854 to run a shipyard on the Queen’s Island in East Belfast. Harland purchased the Belfast shipyard with the financial backing from Gustav Schwabe, a shipping magnate and uncle of Gustav Wilhelm Wolff. Harland made Wolff a Partner in 1862 and the firm helped to found a thriving shipping industry in the city.