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1847 Joined the family business of [[Callender and Sons]], merchants and manufacturers | 1847 Joined the family business of [[Callender and Sons]], merchants and manufacturers | ||
1849 Married Hannah Mayson. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters | |||
The firm became one of Manchester's leading cotton spinners and merchants, acquiring in 1862 the mills of Thomas Bazley in Water Street, Manchester, and the Dean mills, Halliwell, Bolton. | The firm became one of Manchester's leading cotton spinners and merchants, acquiring in 1862 the mills of Thomas Bazley in Water Street, Manchester, and the Dean mills, Halliwell, Bolton. | ||
1862 Callender put into practice his paternalist beliefs at [[Barrow Bridge Village]], where he attempted to revive its mutual improvement society and regularly addressed his workers on the values of literacy and self-help. | |||
Callender also invested, with Thomas Hughes among others, in the co-operative Cobden memorial mills in 1866, and in the late 1860s the family firm had purchased and modernized the Jackson Street Spinning Company of the philanthropist Robert Barnes. | |||
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William Romaine Callender (1825–1876), cotton spinner and politician
1825 born on 2 June at 7 Nelson Street, Chorlton Row, Manchester, the elder son of William Romaine Callender (1794–1872), merchant and calico printer, and his first wife, Hannah, the daughter of Samuel Pope from Exeter, probably a solicitor.
1847 Joined the family business of Callender and Sons, merchants and manufacturers
1849 Married Hannah Mayson. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters
The firm became one of Manchester's leading cotton spinners and merchants, acquiring in 1862 the mills of Thomas Bazley in Water Street, Manchester, and the Dean mills, Halliwell, Bolton.
1862 Callender put into practice his paternalist beliefs at Barrow Bridge Village, where he attempted to revive its mutual improvement society and regularly addressed his workers on the values of literacy and self-help.
Callender also invested, with Thomas Hughes among others, in the co-operative Cobden memorial mills in 1866, and in the late 1860s the family firm had purchased and modernized the Jackson Street Spinning Company of the philanthropist Robert Barnes.
By 1825 William senior was a partner in the expanding Manchester firm of Kershaw, Leese and Callender. He left this firm in 1836 and, after several more partnerships, set up Callender and Sons, merchants and manufacturers; his sons later joining as partners.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography of William Romaine Callender, ODNB