Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin (born November 8, 1866; died May 23, 1941) was an English automobile designer and builder.
He was born in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire but the family moved to Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire in 1870 where he first went to school, later continuing his education at Rotherham Grammar School.
He returned to England by ship, with his friend Frederick Wolseley, docking at Tilbury in November 1893, whom he worked for as a manager.
In 1905 Austin resigned from the Wolseley Tool & Motor Company taking some of the senior staff with him. He embarked on a search of a factory that could accommodate his idea for a new car manufacturer. He took over an old print works, outside Birmingham, in Longbridge, which was then in the County of Worcestershire; Longbridge did not became a suburb of Birmingham until 1911 when the city's boundaries were expanded.
The Austin car works at Longbridge were later to become one of the greatest car manufacturers in the world.
In 1917, he was knighted for his services to the war effort and received the Belgium Order of the Crown of Leopold II, for the employment of 3,000 Belgium refugees at Longbridge.
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