English brewers

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Richard Fox (chef)

Richard Fox is a celebrity chef, broadcaster and writer. He is known as the Beer Chef. He wrote his first book, The Food and Beer Cook Book, in 2008, has led Beer and Food Masterclasses, demos and shows across Europe and hosted a gourmet beer banquet at the British Ambassador's residence in Paris and writes a Beer Chef column in Maxim. He lives in Harrogate.

Together with his friend Neil Morrissey, he has developed a range of beers under the name Morrissey Fox. In 2010 they made the ITV series Men Brewing Badly which documented their road journey from Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg transporting a batch of English beer destined for the English football supporters during the 2010 World Cup.

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Francis Northey Richardson

Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Northey Richardson, OBE, TD, JP (1894 – 29 January 1983), known as Frank Richardson, was an English Canadian soldier and brewing executive, who served as President of the Institute of Brewing.

Francis Northey Richardson was born in 1894, the son of F. Richardson, of Penticton in British Columbia. His family had emigrated to Canada, but Richardson was educated at Harrow (1908–12), before attending the University of British Columbia. He volunteered for the Canadian Army in 1914, and automatically became a Canadian citizen in the process; he fought with the country's forces in Europe during World War I as a gunner, before receiving a field commission; he was mentioned in dispatches twice and received the Territorial Decoration.

With the war over, in 1919 Richardson joined the hop merchants Wigan Richardson & Company, where two of his uncles worked; he remained connected with the firm for over fifty years, eventually as a consultant. In 1925, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Allied Brewery Traders Association, and remained on it until 1971. In 1931, he was elected its Chair and actively opposed proposals to increase beer tax; he was asked to continue as chair into 1932. Richardson was also chairman of the Hop Merchants Association and in 1936, he joined the London Section of the Institute of Brewing. His career was interrupted by the Second World War, when, having remained in the Territorial Army after 1918, he was called up as a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a gunnery regiment in Iceland. He subsequently led a training regiment in Cromer. With the war over, he served as the IOB London Section's Chairman between 1954 and 1955. Having also been a member of its Hop Advisory Committee since 1959 (he served on the committee until 1981), he was elected President of the IOB from 1962 to 1964.

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Francis Showering

Francis Edwin Showering CBE (10 July 1912 – 5 September 1995), was an English brewer. His family company, Showerings, invented Babycham, a light, sparkling perry, launched in 1953 and originally marketed as "genuine champagne perry". In 1957 it became the first alcoholic product to be advertised on UK television.

Showering was born in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, England, where his father was an innkeeper and brewer. The family business, Showerings, brewed beer and cider. He was educated at Shepton Mallet grammar school and then studied to become a chemist in Bristol. He had married Hilda Foote in 1934. They had no children.

He and his three brothers all worked at Showerings; Francis eventually became managing director.

In the 1940s, the company developed a process to produce perry - a form of cider made from fermented pear juice - and created a low-alcohol sparking drink that was christened Babycham. The new drink was marketed mainly at young women, and sold in small bottles to be served in a champagne saucer - "the genuine champagne perry sparkling in its own glamorous glass". After disputes with French champagne produces, including a court case in 1978, H P Bulmer Ltd v J Bollinger SA which held that marketing of a similar sparkling cider was not confusing, the reference to champagne was eventually prohibited by EU rules on protected designation of origin.

The drink became very popular, with its advertising slogan "I'd love a Babycham" and logo of a small deer. To serve the burgeoning demand, the company bought pear orchards across the West Midlands, and planted new pear orchards in Somerset. Output in Shepton Mallet reached 108,000 bottles an hour in 1966, and new plants were opened in Ireland and Belgium.

Showerings became a public company in 1959, and acquired William Gaymer, Vine Products, Whiteways, Britvic, and John Harvey & Sons. Showerings itself acquired by Allied Breweries in 1968 for £108 million, and Showering was appointed as a director of Allied Breweries after the merger. His nephew Sir Keith Showering was vice-chairman from 1969 and then chairman and chief executive from 1975 to 1982, during which time Allied Breweries acquired Teacher's whisky and became Allied Lyons after the acquisition of the Lyons food and catering business in 1979.

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James Grimble Groves

James Grimble Groves (24 October 1854 – 23 June 1914) was a British brewer and Conservative politician.

He was the son of William Peer Groves, of Springbank, Pendleton, near Salford and was educated privately and at Owen's College, Manchester. He became chairman and managing director of Groves and Whitnall Limited, owners of the Regent Road Brewery, Salford.

Groves was the chairman of the Salford Conservative Association, and when the member of parliament for Salford South announced his retirement prior to the 1900 general election, he was selected as the party's candidate. He held the seat for the Conservatives.

In November 1900 a number of arsenic poisonings in the Manchester area were traced to beer from the Groves and Whitnall Brewery, and consequently a large amount of the company's stock had to be destroyed. In 1903, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cheshire.

Groves only served one term in the Commons, losing his seat to Hilaire Belloc in the Liberal landslide at the 1906 general election.

He married in 1878, and made his home at Oldfield Hall, Altrincham, Cheshire. He died in June 1914 aged 59, after a long illness. His daughter, Eileen Norah, married Howard Cumming and their daughter was the writer Anne Cumming. One of Groves' son was Robert Marsland Groves, the naval aviation pioneer and senior Royal Air Force commander. Two other sons William Peer Groves and Keith Grimble Groves went on to join the brewery's board.

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Charles Addington Hanbury

Charles Addington Hanbury (c. 1828 – 13 December 1900) was a member of the Hanbury brewing family and a master of the Brewers' Company in 1857.

Hanbury's father was Robert Hanbury, a partner for more than 50 years in the brewers Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co., who died on 20 January 1884.

In 1853 he married Christine Isabella MacKenzie in Inverness. One of their sons was the geographer, traveller and author, David Theophilus Hanbury.

In 1859, Hanbury was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 12th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, a unit got up by Wilbraham Taylor of Hadley Hurst, a gentleman usher to Queen Victoria who became a captain in the unit. They had premises in High Street, Barnet.

Around 1861, he bought Mount Pleasant in East Barnet.

The London Metropolitan Archives contain a number of leases entered into by Hanbury in the 1880s on behalf of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.

Hanbury died in a riding accident when he was thrown from his horse and broke his neck will hunting with the Warwickshire Hounds at Grandborough near Rugby.

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Mary Hardy (diarist)

Mary Hardy (diarist)

Mary Hardy (née Raven; 12 November 1733 – 23 March 1809) was an 18th-century English diarist. She depicts commercial and working life in the countryside, being actively engaged in her husband's farming and brewing business. Her 500,000-word record, compiled daily from 1773 to 1809, reveals the exacting, time-pressured nature of pre-mechanised work for the middle and labouring classes.

Mary Hardy spent nearly half her life in the small village of Whissonsett, in central Norfolk, where her father Robert Raven was a grocer, maltster and later a farmer. She came from a long line of village shopkeepers, manufacturers and farmers in Norfolk, the county from which she never moved.

Maltsters, like brewers, were monitored by the Excise and had to adhere strictly to procedures and timings set by legislation. Living beside her family’s small malthouse may have trained the young Mary Raven in the time-awareness and methodical work patterns seen later in her diary. Her meticulous recording lifts her from the obscurity in which she and her extended circle lived and gives insight into the forces to which they were exposed.

Her husband William Hardy was born on 26 January 1732 at Scotton, near Knaresborough, in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he died 18 August 1811 at his daughter's farmhouse at Sprowston, near Norwich, Norfolk. He probably met his future wife while posted to East Dereham, a few miles from Whissonsett, during his years as an excise officer 1757–69. His official duties brought him into contact with maltsters, brewers, tanners and other rural manufacturers; his wife seems to have been most at ease with this "middling-sort" class, and they had few gentry friends.

Mary and William Hardy married in Whissonsett Church in 1765 when they were aged 32 and 33, and set up home at East Dereham. Their first child, named Raven for his mother, was born there 9 November 1767. Their second son, William, was born on 1 April 1770 at Litcham, in central Norfolk, where his father had been posted. The last child, Mary Ann, was born at Coltishall, seven miles (11 km) north-east of Norwich, on 3 November 1773; by then William Hardy was tenant of a 60-acre (24 ha) farm and manager of a commercial maltings and brewery.

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Harold Wallis Harman

Harold Wallis Harman (1875 – 31 January 1959) was an English brewer and brewing executive.

Harold Wallis Harman was born in Brixton in 1875, the son of "a medical man". He attended the Merchant Taylors' School and the Royal College of Science before working at a sugar refinery in Greenock. He later went to work in the laboratory of Lawrence Briant in London, before taking up a position in the laboratory of the Southwark brewery belonging to Barclay, Perkings and Co. Ltd. In 1906 he resumed working for Briant and married his daughter, Phyllis. He became a partner in the firm; when Briant died in 1923, Harman took over as senior partner.

Harman became a member of the Institute of Brewing in 1905 and served as its President in 1936–37 and 1943–44, having been chairman of the London Section in 1929–30, chairman of the Institute's Analysis Committee for 18 years, and a long-term Council member. In 1923 he gave evidence to the Ministry of Health about the use of preservatives and colourings in food. Later in the 1920s and 1930s, he chaired the Institute's Hops Advisory Sub-Committee (from 1923) and the equivalent for Yeast (from 1924). In 1936–38 he chaired the Research Fund Committee.

Outside of Brewing, Harman spent much of his time on his farm in Leith Hill, Surrey, and the surrounding countryside, where he enjoyed fly-fishing. He was also committed to the YMCA and served on the Central Council of its Metropolitan branch. A "distinguished yet unassuming man", Harman died on 31 January 1959.

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Philip Harper (brewer)

Philip Harper (1966) is a British-born sake brewer in Japan. He is the only immigrant to have earned the title toji (Kanji: 杜氏 Hiragana: とうじ) or master sake brewer. He has worked for a variety of sake breweries since 1991. His hope is to broaden the market of Japanese sake - bringing its taste to other parts of Asia, Europe, and North America - and to revive sake as the national, cultural drink of Japan. Harper is the author of two books on sake: The Insider's Guide to Sake (Kodansha International, 1998, ISBN ), and The Book of Sake: A Connoisseurs Guide (Kodansha International, 2006, ISBN ).

Philip Harper was born in 1966 in Birmingham and was raised in Cornwall County, England, United Kingdom. In 1988, Harper earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature at Oxford University. After graduation, he moved to Osaka, Japan to participate in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET) where he taught English in public junior and high schools for two years. Harper, already a fan of European alcohol, was introduced to Japanese sake by his teaching colleagues at a party. He then joined a sake drinking club and frequented taverns in the Osaka area.

After completing his two-year contract with the JET program, Harper opted to stay in Japan while working days at an English conversation school and nights at a local tavern. In 1991 he was introduced to Ume no Yado, a traditional Japanese sake brewery in a rural town within Nara Prefecture. There Harper worked as a general laborer. He spent his first year milling, machine-polishing, and bagging brown rice. He learned how to steam the rice in his second year. By his third year, he was put in charge of cultivating koji mold which allows the rice to ferment into sake. During the next ten years, Harper would spend every day during the sake brewing season - October through April - working at Ume no Yado. The owner of the brewery enrolled Harper in sake brewing classes and gave him material to study to improve his sake-making knowledge. Harper married a Japanese woman shortly after he began his work at the brewery. His marriage ceremony was his only day off during his ten-year employment at Ume no Yado.

Harper published his first book in 1998 entitled The Insider's Guide to Sake. The book drew on his years of experience in consuming and making sake. The small book, which by 2008 had sold over 20,000 copies, contains information about various types of sake including nigori, dai-ginjo, ginjo, and hon-jouzo. The book is targeted at novice-level overseas enjoyers of sake and thus contains many pictures and labels of the various drinks.

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Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip

Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip DL (19 February 1811 – 2 April 1887), known as Sir Henry Allsopp, Bt, between 1880 and 1886, was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

Allsopp was the third son of Samuel Allsopp (12 August 1780 - 26 February 1838), the son of James Allsopp and Anne Wilson, head of the brewery firm of Samuel Allsopp & Sons of Burton-on-Trent and his wife Frances Fowler.

He represented East Worcestershire in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1880 when he was ennobled. In 1874 he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire. He was created a Baronet, of Hindlip Hall in the Parish of Hindlip in the County of Worcester, in 1880, and raised to the peerage as Baron Hindlip, of Hindlip in the County of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the County of Derby, in 1886.

Allsopp succeeded his father in 1838 in running of the family brewing business. He was very upset when shareholders claimed they had been misled over its 1887 stockmarket flotation, and he died within weeks of the criticism.

Lord Hindlip married Elizabeth Tongue, daughter of William Tongue, in 1839. He died in April 1887, aged 76, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Samuel. His son George Higginson Allsopp was MP for Worcester, and Alfred Percy Allsopp was MP for Taunton. Another son Herbert Allsopp was a cricketer and an army officer. Lady Hindlip died in 1906.

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Hugh Hoare (Liberal politician)

Hugh Edward Hoare (26 March 1854 - 15 July 1929) was a British brewer and Liberal politician.

He was the sixth son of Henry Hoare, banker, of Iden Park, Staplehurst, Kent and his wife Mary Lady Marsham, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Romney. he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.

He was partner in the brewery company of Hoare and Company, Lower East Smithfield, and was on the boards of the New England Breweries and the United States Brewery Company. His interest in public affairs led to his election to the London School Board.

At the 1892 general election he was elected as Liberal member of parliament for the Western or Chesterton Division of Cambridgeshire, taking the seat from the Conservatives. He failed to hold the seat at the subsequent election in 1895 or regain it in 1900. He was again unsuccessful when he stood at Chelsea in December 1910.

He retired from politics, and devoted himself to his brewing interests and also became a director of the National Provident Institution. He died suddenly at his residence, Bix Hall, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire in July 1929, aged 75.

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