John Emary 1870s, Emary and his son George Moore Emary (1850-1937) handed over control of Aquascutum to Scantlebury & Commin. John Emary John Emary (1810/11- ) was a British tailor and businessman, and the founder of the fashion brand Aquascutum. John Emary was born in Lullingstone, Kent in 1810/11. In 1851, Emary opened a menswear shop in London's Regent Street. Later in the 1850s, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile, and founded Aquascutum, using the Latin aqua (water) and scutum (shield). In the 1871 census, he was aged 60, and a "merchant tailor", living in Islington, with his wife
Famous Blue Raincoat "Songs of Love and Hate" and was Cohen's band leader for several years. He told Songfacts: "We played that song a lot before it ever went to tape. We knew it was going to be big. We could see what the crowd did — you play the Royal Albert Hall, the crowd goes crazy, and you're really saying something there. If I had to pick a favorite from the album, it would probably be 'Famous Blue Raincoat.'" The original recording starts in the key of A minor, but switches to C major during the choruses. Cohen said, "That's nice. I