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    English Argentines

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    English Argentines (also known as Anglo-Argentines) are citizens of Argentina, or the children of Argentine citizens brought up in Argentina, who can claim ancestry originating in England. The English settlement in Argentina (the arrival of English emigrants), took place in the period after Argentina's independence from Spain through the 19th century.

    Unlike many other waves of immigration to Argentina, English immigrants were not usually leaving England because of poverty or persecution, but went to Argentina as industrialists and major landowners. The United Kingdom had a strong economic influence in Argentina during the Victorian period.

    However the position of English Argentines was complicated when their economic influence was finally eroded by Juan Perón's nationalisation of many British-owned companies in the 1940s and, more recently, by the Falklands War in 1982. Famous Argentines such as Presidents of Argentina Raúl Alfonsín and Carlos Pellegrini, adventurer Lucas Bridges, Huracan football club president Carlos Babington and writer Jorge Luis Borges are partially of English descent.

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    English Immigration

    English settlers arrived in Buenos Aires in 1806 (then a Spanish colony) in small numbers, mostly as businessmen, when Argentina was an emerging nation and the settlers were welcomed for the stability they brought to commercial life. As the 19th century progressed more English families arrived, and many bought land to develop the potential of the Argentine pampas for the large-scale growing of crops. The English founded banks, developed the export trade in crops and animal products and imported the luxuries that the growing Argentine middle classes sought.

    As well as those who went to Argentina as industrialists and major landowners, others went as railway engineers, civil engineers and to work in banking and commerce. Others went to become whalers, missionaries and simply to seek out a future. English families sent second and younger sons, or what were described as the black sheep of the family, to Argentina to make their fortunes in cattle and wheat. English settlers introduced football to Argentina. Some English families owned sugar plantations.

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    Background

    In a treaty of 1825, the United Kingdom became one of the first countries to recognise the independence of Argentina. English arrivals and investment played a large part in the development of Argentine railway and tramway lines, and also Argentine agriculture, livestock breeding, processing, refrigeration and export. At one point in the 19th century, ten per cent of British foreign investment was in Argentina, despite not being a colony. In 1939, 39% of investment in Argentina was British.

    English culture, or a version of it as perceived from outside, had a noted effect on the culture of Argentina, mainly in the middle classes. In 1888 local Anglo-Argentines established the Hurlingham Club, based on its namesake in London. The city of Hurlingham, Buenos Aires and Hurlingham Partido in Buenos Aires Province later grew up around the club and took their names from it. The Córdoba Athletic Club, one of the oldest sports clubs in Argentina, was founded in 1882 by English men that lived in Córdoba working in the railroads.


    Constitución railway station in Buenos Aires. Opened in 1907 by British developers, it is the busiest station in Argentina.

    In 1912 Harrods opened a department store in Buenos Aires; the only Harrods ever opened outside London. Harrods Buenos Aires became independent of Harrods in the 1940s but still traded under the Harrods name.


    Harrods on Florida Street. Opened in 1912 as their only overseas branch, it closed in 1996 and is now an exhibition hall.

    Afternoon tea became standard amongst large segments of the population and generated the popular merienda, an afternoon snack also known simply as la leche (milk) because it was served with tea or chocolate milk along with sweets. The Richmond café on Florida Street is a notable tea venue near the Harrods department store, now turned into an exhibition hall.



    Gardened chalets built by railway executives near railway stations in suburbs such as Banfield, Temperley, Munro, Ranelagh and Hurlingham gave a pointed English atmosphere to local areas in Buenos Aires, especially in winter when shrouded in grey mists and fallen oak leaves over cobblestones. Belgrano R, within the Belgrano district, is another train station known for the British neighbourhood around it originated by the railway.

    An Anglican church from 1896 and the Buenos Aires English High School founded by Alexander Watson Hutton in 1884 are both located in this area. Also important are the railway terminals Retiro in the homonymous neighbourhood and Constitución. There are numerous countryside stations in the Pampas.


    English-style houses on a residential street in Belgrano R.

    Around 100,000 Anglo-Argentines are the descendants of English immigrants to Argentina. They are one of the most successful immigrant groups of Argentina, gaining prominence in commerce, industry, and the professions. Many are noted by their ability to speak English in family circles with an undistinguishable English accent. An English-language newspaper, the Buenos Aires Herald, continues to be published daily in Buenos Aires.

    Anglo-Argentines have traditionally differed from their fellow Argentines by largely retaining strong ties with their mother country, including education and commerce. Many of the schools in Argentina are bilingual offering both English language and Spanish language, including Northlands School, St. Mark's College, Balmoral College, St. Alban's College, St. George's College, Belgrano Day School and Washington School.

    Buenos Aires had a number of branches of the Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa (English Cultural Association) and throughout the 20th century English language learning and teaching in state schools and private institutions was invariably geared towards the Received Pronunciation. Blue blazers and grey flannels are still used as uniforms in most private schools.

    The Anglo-Argentine Society, based in London, was founded in 1948 and has about 900 members. It is a society for Argentine people living in the United Kingdom, particularly those of Anglo-Argentine heritage. One of its main aims is to promote understanding and friendship between the two countries.

    Also in London is the Canning Club, formerly the Argentine Club until Juan Perón nationalised Argentine-based British businesses, the main source of revenue of the club in the 1940s. The club is for those with a particular link to, or special interest in, Argentina and other Latin American countries.

    The Coghlan neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, known for its large English-style residences, was originally inhabited by English and Irish immigrants. Furthermore, Caballito contains an area called the "English District".

    In 1794, the British Empire opened a consulate in San Nicolás,[citation needed] leading to the development of a large British community in the area, which became known as the "English borough". They founded the English Merchants' Society in 1810 and in 1822 the British Consulate became home to the first modern bank in Buenos Aires.

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    English place names

    A number of towns, villages and cities have English place names. These include Banfield which is named after Edward Banfield. Wilde, Buenos Aires, named in 1888 by Eduardo Wilde in honour of his uncle Dr. José Antonio Wilde, who was an English Argentine.

    Hurlingham, Buenos Aires and Hurlingham Partido took their name from the Hurlingham Club around which the city of Hurlingham grew. Others include the town of Lincoln, Washington and City Bell, a small town in La Plata partido, Buenos Aires province, which was founded around 1900 by English immigrants and which is named after its founder, George Bell.

    Temperley is named after the industrial and textile merchant George Temperley, who was born in 1823 in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. He helped to create Lomas de Zamora Partido and made possible the foundation of the town of Temperley. Allen, Río Negro is named after Charles Allen who managed the construction of the city's train station.

    There are several train station-founded towns with English names in the country such as Roberts, Smith, Hereford and Henderson. The station of Monte Coman in Mendoza Province owes its name to a dispute with a British company which did not pay its local workers on time. The workers complained they had nothing to eat; an engineer responded, in bad Spanish, "coman monte" which was supposed to mean "eat the woods". In Córdoba province, English names can be traced in Morrison or James Craik, and in Santa Fe province, there's Armstrong.

    The Torre de los Ingleses ('Tower of the English') in Buenos Aires was renamed the Torre Monumental following the Falklands War.

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    Sport

    Sports such as football, tennis, rugby union, hockey, golf, cricket and polo were introduced to Argentina by English settlers.

    Polo

    Polo was first played in Argentina at the Hurlingham Club and the Argentine Polo Association was founded at the club in 1922. Argentina has since become a dominant power in international polo, and the Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo has been held annually since 1893 at the Campo Argentino de Polo in Buenos Aires.


    San Andrés Golf Club, San Martín, Buenos Aires Province.

    Football

    See main article: Football in Argentina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Argentina

    English railway workers from Northern England founded the Buenos Aires Football Club on 9 May 1867 in Temple Street (now Viamonte) at a meeting organised by brothers Thomas and James Hogg who were originally from Yorkshire. The first football match to be played in Argentina was played at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club in Palermo, Buenos Aires on 20 June 1867. The match was played between two teams of British merchants, the White Caps and the Red Caps.


    Alumni Athletic Club football team in 1910

    Alumni Athletic Club was founded in 1898 as "English High School" (taking the name of the school where the team came from, and the club was the most successful in the amateur era in Argentina. The team debuted in the inaugural season of the recently formed Argentine Football Association in 1893 and played again in 1895 and 1900 under its original name. In 1901 they changed their name to "Alumni". They continued to play in the league until the club were disbanded in 1911.

    Evidence of the influence of English settlers in Argentine football can be seen by club names, and the tradition of giving clubs English names, such as All Boys, Banfield, Chaco For Ever, Newell's Old Boys, Racing Club, Boca Juniors and River Plate among others.

    A number of clubs were founded by English settlers, including -

    - Ferrocarril Midland was founded on 28 June 1914 by English railway workers of the Buenos Aires Midland Railway.

    - Ferro Carril Oeste was founded by English railway workers of the Buenos Aires Western Railway on 29 July 1904.

    - Newell's Old Boys was founded in 1903 and named by former pupils of the English High School of Rosario in homage to its director and football coach, English immigrant Isaac Newell.

    - Rosario Central was founded as the "Central Argentine Railway Athletic Club" on 24 December 1889 by English railway workers of the Central Argentine Railway.

    - Talleres de Córdoba was founded in 1913 as "Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba" by English workers of the Córdoba Central Railway. Mr. Thomas Lawson was the Talleres Athletic Club founder.

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    Religion

    Anglican church in Argentina

    Anglican churches were established in Argentina, where the religion is otherwise overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, in the early 19th century to give a chaplaincy service to expatriate workers living in Argentina. In 1824 permission was given to hold Anglican church services, and in 1831 St. John's Church was built in San Nicolás, Buenos Aires on land donated in 1830 by Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas for the benefit of the new St. John the Baptist Anglican Church. It is the oldest in existence in Buenos Aires.

    English naval captain and Christian missionary, Allen Gardiner founded the Patagonia Mission (later to be renamed the South American Missionary Society) in 1844 to recruit, send, and support Protestant Christian missionaries. His first mission, which included a surgeon and three fishermen was sent to the Yaghans on the island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. They arrived at Picton island in Tierra del Fuego in December 1850, but their food began to run out. They had expected scheduled supplies, however they did not arrive, and by September 1851 they had died from sickness and hunger. The Patagonia Mission continued and in 1854 changed its name to the South American Missionary Society.

    In January 1869 the Society established a mission at Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego under its superintendent, Waite Hockin Stirling. On 21 December 1869 Stirling was ordained at Westminster Abbey as the first Bishop of the Falkland Islands and at the time had episcopal authority over the whole of South America, until power shifted to the Bishop of Buenos Aires. In 1914 the first mission, Misión Chaqueńa, was founded in the north of Argentina.

    The Anglican Diocese of Argentina is part of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone of America and is headed by the current Bishop of Buenos Aires.

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    Notable English Argentines

    Raúl Alfonsín - President of Argentina from 10th December, 1983, to 8th July, 1989. His mother, Ana María Foulkes, was of English origin.

    Carlos Babington - former footballer. Known as "El Inglés" (The Englishman).

    Hilda Bernard - actress

    Jorge Luis Borges - author and poet; his grandmother was of English origin.

    Eduardo Bradley - aviator.

    Lucas Bridges - author and explorer.

    Hector Cuper - football manager

    Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill - author and sociologist

    Donald Forrester - cricketer.

    John Godwin - sub-Lieutenant in the British Royal Naval Reserve in World War II. Joined 14 (Arctic) Commando and was lost on Operation Checkpoint.

    Andrew Graham-Yooll - author, currently works for Perfil.

    Trevor Grove - journalist and newspaper editor.

    Soto Grimshaw - naturalist and explorer.

    Diego Hartfield - tennis player.

    Juan Enrique Hayes - football player.

    Leonardo Henrichsen - photojournalist.

    Mariano Hood - tennis player.

    Juan Carlos Howard - tango pianist and composer.

    William Henry Hudson - author and naturalist

    Martita Hunt - actress.

    Olivia Hussey - actress best known for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet.

    Francisco Moreno - explorer and geographer. His mother, Juana Thwaites, was of English descent.

    Edward Robert Morgan - rugby union player. Former captain of the national team.

    Isaac Newell - founder or Newell's Old Boys football club.

    Olga Casares Pearson - actress.

    Carlos Pellegrini - President of Argentina from 6th August 1890 to 12th October 1892. His mother, María Bevans Bright, was of English origin.

    Julio Porter - screenwriter and film director, known for being one of the most prolific screenwriters and film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.

    Peter Prescott (barrister) - Queen's Counsel.

    Jorge Pullin - physicist.

    Collier Twentyman Smithers - portrait, figure and rustic painter.

    René Strickler - actor.

    Martín Jacobo Thompson - navy officer and patriot, founder of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.

    Maria Elena Walsh - children's literature writer and singer.

    Eduardo Wilde - physician, politician and writer.

    Amancio Williams - architect.

    The commanding officer of the Argentine troops that invaded the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982 and replaced the British administration there was Argentine Admiral Carlos Büsser, who had English ancestors.

    Elena Roger - actress.

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    Buenos Aires English High School


    View of the "New Liverpool" neighbourhood of the city of Bahía Blanca



    Entrance to the English Neighbourhood (Barrio Inglés) of the city of Campana



    Neo-gothic architecture in Palermo, Buenos Aires, an area popular among "well-to-do" Argentines


    Tree lined street in City Bell


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    Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is an English-Argentinian actress.

    Hussey was born Olivia Osuna in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first child of Andreas Osuna, an Argentine opera singer, and Joy Hussey, a secretary originally from England.

    After appearing in theatre in London, Hussey was chosen to play the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. The role lent her international recognition, and she won a Golden Globe and also the David di Donatello Award for her performance.

    She wasn't legally allowed in the US to see her appearance in the Romeo & Juliet film in the cinema due to her age:


    I think Olivia looks similar to this southern English YouTube vlogger Zoella








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    I think Olivia Hussey looks like the English film actress Jane Seymour (who is often voted as the most beautiful Bond girl.)
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    Olivia Hussey's daughter is American actress India Eisley

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