W. B. Mew, Langton and Co
of Newport, Isle of Wight
Ale and Beer
1854 The Newport interests of Benjamin Mew's son, William Baron Mew, including the Crocker Street brewery, and the Lymington, Hants., interests of another son, Thomas Parker Mew, were combined.
1873 Walter Langton, late of Lambeth, injected £20,000 capital into the business which then became W. B. Mew, Langton & Co.
1887 Limited liability status was taken.
Control of the new company remained in the hands of the Mew family throughout its life. It passed to William Baron Mew's son, Francis Templeman Mew and, after the latter's death in 1922, to his son Francis Joseph Templeman Mew.
By 1965 two hundred public houses and twenty off-licences on the Isle of Wight, around Lymington and in Southampton and Portsmouth were controlled and annual sales amounted to more than £1.5 million. In that year, however, a take-over by Strong and Co of Romsey was accepted and Mew, Langton's independent existence came to an end.