of Brentford
Brewers, Bottlers and Wine and Spirit Merchants
The Red Lion Brewery was in existence in the 18th century owned by Felix Booth.
After a visit by King William IV. the name was altered from Red Lion to the Royal Brewery.
Later owned by Mr. Carrington (father of Richard Christopher Carrington, 1826-1875, Astronomer).
1867 Gibbon and Croxford, brewers.[1]
1870 Gibbons and Croxford, of the Royal Brewery, Brentford.[2]
1880 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Richard Gibbon, of Warwick House, Mudstone, in the county of Kent, and Charles Howis Croxford, of Brentford, in the county of Middlesex, as Brewers, carrying on business at the Royal Brewery, at Brentford aforesaid, under the style or firm of Gibbon and Croxford is dissolved...'[3]
1890 Incorporated as a Limited Company
1923 Closed. 'One of the oldest breweries in the country the “Royal” Brewery, Brentford is to be closed. A Maidstone firm of brewers has acquired a controlling interest in the business and it is to be transferred to Kentish Town. Originally the “Red Lion” Brewery it was flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries and in the closing years of the latter passed into the hands of Mr Felix Booth a London distiller and a Sheriff of London and Middlesex.'[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Middlesex County Times - Saturday 28 September 1867
- ↑ Islington Gazette - Friday 08 April 1870
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:25 June 1880 Issue:24858 Page:2662
- ↑ Middlesex Chronicle - Friday 01 June 1973