BP, also known as British Petroleum, is a multinational oil and gas company that has a rich and complex history. The parent company, BP plc, was originally founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) by a British entrepreneur named William Knox D’Arcy. D’Arcy was born on October 11, 1849, in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. He began his career as a businessman and invested heavily in oil exploration in Persia (now Iran) after securing…