Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr.

Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr. (February 1, 1895, died April 21, 1981) (nicknamed "Liv") was an American businessman, philanthropist, plantation owner, quail hunter and yachtsman from Cleveland, Ohio.

Ireland was born in Cleveland Ohio. He attended University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio and went on to prepare for college at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. He graduated from Asheville School in North Carolina in 1914. From 1914-1915 he also attended Phillips Andover Academy followed by studying mining engineering at Yale University. He left Yale during World War I and enlisted in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps.

He had a long career with the M.A. Hanna Company founded by his maternal grandfather, Howard Melville Hanna. He also had a long run with Consolidation Coal Company. From 1920 to 1924, he worked for Susquehanna Collieries Company, a subsidiary of Hanna Coal Company in Pennsylvania. In 1924, he returned to Cleveland and became an assistant to the general manager of SCC. He worked his way up in Hanna Coal and became manager in 1929 followed by president in 1931. When Consolidation Coal Company purchased Hanna Coal, he became chairman of the executive committee followed by vice-chairman of the board of directors. He retired in 1966.

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