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Edward Vickers

Edward Vickers

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Edward Vickers (1804-1897) was the founder of Naylor Vickers & Co. which became Vickers Limited.

Career

Vickers was a successful miller who invested his money in the railway industry.[1] In 1828 he garnered control of his father-in-law's steel foundry business, formerly Naylor & Sanderson, and renamed it Naylor Vickers & Co.[2] He went on to be Alderman and the Mayor of Sheffield and was the first President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce before he died in 1897.[1]

Family

In 1828 Vickers married Anne Naylor. They had seven children (George Naylor (1830-1889) who married Maria Jackson, granddaughter of steelmaker James Jackson,[3] Thomas Edward (1833-1915), Sarah Ann (1836-1919), Albert [Wikidata] (1838-1919), Frederick (1840-?), Gertrude L. (1845-?) and Isabel (1847-?)).[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Grace's Guide
  2. [2]
    Zander, p. 111
  3. [3]
    mbajet genealogical tree

Sources

  • Zander, Patrick Glenn (2011). Right Modern Technology, Nation, and Britain's Extreme Right in the Interwar Period. ISBN 978-1243624611.
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