John Emary 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 Elizabeth, three children (Mary, George M, and Susan Meears), two grandchildren, sister-in-law and one servant. In the late
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