Arthur McDougall
of McDougall Brothers and also see McDougall Brothers (of Manchester)
"He was brought up amid the mysteries of the chemist's laboratory, and did not turn his attention to milling until he had hit upon a chemical discovery which led to the production of the world-famous McDougall's self-raising flour. Free therefore from all the old prejudices of the school of millers who had been brought up in the pre-scientific days, his mind was open to receive conviction, and thus it was that one who was not a miller in the sense of having been brought up to the trade, had the honour of having the first complete roller plant in the United Kingdom. His training as a chemist had given him that power of tracing points to the root and finding any lurking defect, and it is to the scientific and progressive miller's like Mr. McDougall that we owe much of the great advance in scientific willing, and not entirely to the energetic experts who have added their fecit audi alteram partem."[1]
1880 Arthur McDougall will henceforth carry on business, under his own name, as a Corn Miller and Baker, at the City Corn Mills, Poland-street aforesaid, at No. 99, Shudehill Manchester, and at No. 133, Strangeways[2]
1899 Director of Electromotors
1926 The 2 business of McDougalls Ltd, with HQ in London, and Arthur McDougall Ltd with HQ in Manchester, were combined as McDougall's Ltd[3]