John Henry Patterson, the Author

John Henry Patterson (1867-1947) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and autobiography writer.

He is best known for the book, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo which was made into a film of the same name in the 1950s and re-made as The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996. He also wrote With the Zionists at Gallipoli in 1916 and With the Judeans in Palestine in 1922.

Patterson was born in Ireland and served as a soldier in British India, the Boer War and First World War becoming a major figure in Zionism as a commander in the Jewish Legion of the British Army.

See also: Tsavo maneaters

John H. Patterson, the Owner of NCR

John H. Patterson was the founder and first owner of the National Cash Register Company. He was famous for hiring and firing Thomas Watson Sr, who went on to found IBM. In fact, "John H." was famous for firing many people on rather trivial grounds, for example, if they couldn't tell him why the flags happened to be flying that day.

Watson's stint at NCR shaped him and helped him build the power of IBM. Both Watson and Patterson were sentenced to one year imprisonment for unfair business practises.

See also: NCR Archive