James Marmion Gilmor Carroll (23 October 1884 – 1 September 1962) was a prominent Anglo-Irish

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and a businessman. Carroll was educated at St. Augustine's College,

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, Kent. He married Helena Hearn on 21 June 1916 and the couple had one daughter, Grace Carroll. He became chairman of P. J. Carroll & Company Ltd Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976. (once Ireland's oldest tobacco manufacturer and now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc) and of T. P. & R Goodbody (1929) Ltd., another Irish tobacco company, itself a subsidiary of Carroll's.

Awards and decorations

* Knight of Honour and Devotion of the

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(1947) * Cross of Merit, 1st class with Crown (1953) * Knight of the

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(1955) * Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1957)

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Tobacco industry in Tullamore
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