Arnold Byrvian

"'The only thing standing between me and the control of Tinneville's industrial sector is a lack of time, for time is the enemy of all advancement.' ""― Arnold Byrvian"

Life
Arnold Byrvian was born in 1762 in London and moved to Ventia in 1776 when his family decided to immigrate in search of a better life.They eventually settled down in Tinneville. He attended the Royal Crown College, the same place where he would meet his wife Erika Schuster. They married in 1790 and moved to the apartments lining the dockyards of Tinneville. He started The Byrvian Shipping Company in 1792 using a small fortune he had come into when his father died. in 1798 Erika gave birth to his son Augustus Byrvian, prompting him to rename his company to Byrvian & Son Shipping Company. He spent much of his fortune from his shipping company to grow the dockyards of Tinneville, which were very small and unsuited for large merchant fleets before he began pouring funds into them. He also was known to be one of the few business magnates in the shipping industry that actively sought to further the rights of the workers that served in his company rather than exploiting them for as much money as possible. He would eventually die of pneumonia in 1830, and would be buried at Jardin du Soleil Cemetary.

Rememberance
He is commemorated by a statue of him in Monument Square in Citadel City, and the primary street Tinneville Harbour connects to is named Byrvian Street. In schools he is remembered as being one of Ventia's first captains of industry, and his plans to dominate the entirety of the industrial sector of Tinneville, which never came to fruition.