English brewers

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Sir John Rutherford, 1st Baronet

Sir John Rutherford, 1st Baronet (16 September 1854 – 26 February 1932) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Glasgow University.

Rutherford was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darwen in Lancashire from 1895 to January 1910 and from December 1910 to 1922.

He was made a baronet on 27 January 1916.

A Thoroughbred racehorse owner, his best horse was Solario, a winner of the St. Leger Stakes and Ascot Gold Cup.

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George Blackall Simonds

George Blackall Simonds (6 October 1843 – 16 December 1929) was an English sculptor and director of H & G Simonds Brewery in Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

George was the second son of George Simonds Senior of Reading, director of H & G Simonds, and Mary Anne, the daughter of William Boulger of Bradfield. His grandfather was Reading brewing and banking entrepreneur, William Blackall Simonds. He added Blackall to his name after the death of his brother, Blackall Simonds II, in 1905. He was brother-in-law of the portrait painter, John Collingham Moore, and cousin of the botanist, George Simonds Boulger. He served as the inaugural Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1884-85.

His best known works are The Falconer (1873) in Central Park, New York City (US) and the Maiwand Lion (1886) in the Forbury Gardens, Reading in Berkshire (UK).

In 1922, he temporarily came out of retirement to build the war memorial in Bradfield, the village where he lived in Berkshire. This commemorates the deaths of local men in the First World War, including his son, a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers.

In 2005, users of Reading Borough Libraries, voted him winner of the 'Great People of Reading' poll.

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William Blackall Simonds

William Blackall Simonds (1761–1834) was a brewer and banker in the English town of Reading. He founded both Simonds' Brewery, a component of today's Wells & Young's Brewery business, and J & C Simonds Bank, one of the precursors to Barclays bank.

Simonds came from a family with estates at Arborfield to the south-east of Reading, but his father, William Simonds senior, had moved to Reading to set up a malting business that later grew to include brewing. William senior married Mary Blackall, and William Blackall Simonds was their only son. He was probably born in Reading, with records showing that he was baptised at the Broad Street Independent Chapel in Reading on 13 August 1761.

When William senior died in 1782, William Blackall Simonds inherited his business. He married Elizabeth May, who was the heiress of Daniel May, the miller of Pangbourne, and the ward of Thomas May, the miller of Brimpton and founder of a brewery in Basingstoke. In 1789 Simonds acquired a site on the banks of the River Kennet, and commissioned the architect Sir John Soane to build a brewery and house on the site. The riverside site permitted transport of raw materials and finished product by barge, and was to continue to serve as a brewery until 1980.

In 1791, Simonds was co-founder of a bank in Reading's Market Place, in partnership with local businessmen Robert Micklem, John Stephens, and Robert Harris. His motivation in doing this was to help the brewery grow and to offer its output to a wider customer base. However this proved difficult, largely because local magistrates refused to issue licences for new public houses to sell his beer. As a consequence, Simonds decided to concentrate on his banking activities, and in 1814 he dissolved the original partnership and established a new family-run bank in partnership with his younger son Henry Simonds, and his cousins John Simonds and Charles Simonds. This bank was located in Reading's King Street and later became known as John Simonds, Charles Simonds & Co., Reading Bank.

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John Smith (brewer)

John Smith (18 March 1824 - 9 September 1879) was an English brewer. He is best known for operating the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, which continues to operate.

Smith was born in Leeds on 18 March 1824; the eldest of five children of Samuel Smith, a wealthy butcher and tanner from Leeds.

In 1847 John Smith purchased the Backhouse & Hartley brewery with funding provided by his father. Smith's timing proved fortuitous; pale ales were displacing porter as the public's most popular style of beer, and Tadcaster's hard water proved to be well-suited for brewing the new style. The prosperity of the 1850s and 1860s, together with the arrival of the railways, realised greater opportunities for brewers, and by 1861 Smith employed eight men in his brewing and malting enterprise.

The operations became sizeable during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Smith died at Tadcaster on 9 September 1879, leaving an estate valued at under £45,000 (around £3.3 million in 2013 adjusted for inflation), and his assets were jointly inherited by his two brothers, William (a gentleman) and Samuel Smith (a tanner).

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Henry Thrale

Henry Thrale

Henry Thrale (1724/1730?–4 April 1781) was an 18th-century English Member of Parliament (MP) and a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Like his father, he was the proprietor of the large London brewery, H. Thrale & Co.

Born at the Alehouse in Harrow Corner, Southwark, he was the son of the rich brewer Ralph Thrale (1698–1758) and Mary Thrale. He married Hester Lynch Salusbury on 11 October 1763; they had 12 children, and she outlived him. He was MP for Southwark 23 December 1765 – September 1780, an Alderman, and Sheriff of the City of London: a respected, religious man who was a good hunter and sportsman with a taste for gambling.

Thrale was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 4 June 1744. He travelled in Europe with Lord William Henry Lyttleton Westcote (1724–1808).

Johnson first met the Thrales on the 9 or 10 January 1765, and immediately became almost a part of their family. There was much good literary company. When Fanny Burney was admitted to the circle, Samuel Crisp wrote "Where will you find such another set? Oh, Fanny, set this down as the happiest period of your life." Johnson mostly lived with the Thrales at his country house Streatham Park or brewery home for the next 15 years until Henry's death in 1781.

On 23 December 1765, Henry Thrale was elected to Parliament. He continued to represent Southwark until his election defeat in 1780. [1]

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Daniel Thwaites

Daniel Thwaites (1817 – 21 September 1888) was an English brewer and a Liberal Party politician from Blackburn in Lancashire. He owned what is now Thwaites Brewery, and sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1880.

He was the son of Daniel Thwaites (1777–1843), an excise man who in 1807 had become one of the three partners of the Eanam Brewery in Blackburn, and sole owner of the business in 1824. The younger Daniel inherited the business in partnership with two of his brothers, and became sole owner in 1857.

At the 1874 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Blackburn. However he won the seat at a by-election in October 1875 after the death of Henry Master Feilden, and was one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Blackburn until his defeat at the 1880 general election.

In 1859, he married Eliza Amelia Gregory (1824–1907). They had two children, Edward George Duckworth Thwaites who was born on 20 March 1861, but died in the August of the same year and a daughter, Elma Amy (born 30 July 1864), who married Robert Yerburgh, M.P. for Chester and inherited the Thwaites Brewery business on the death of her father.

In 1876 he built a large country house, Billinge Scar, on the edge of Blackburn, which passed after his death to Elma and her husband.

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Charles Henderson Tidbury

Sir Charles Henderson Tidbury, DL (26 January 1926 – 3 July 2003) was an English brewing executive, who was Chairman of Whitbread and President of the Institute of Brewing.

Charles Henderson Tidbury was born in Camberley, Surrey, on 26 January 1926, the son of Brigadier O. H. Tidbury, MC, and his wife Beryl, née Pearce. Following schooling at Eton College, he joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1944 and served in Palestine from 1946 to 1948. When he returned from Palestine, he learnt Russian at London University and trained to be an interpreter, working thereafter in GCHQ and Germany, before leaving the Army in 1952. He signed up to the Territorial Army once he left active service, and stayed with the Queen’s Westminsters until 1960.

In 1950, Tidbury married Anne, daughter of Brigadier H. E. Russell, DSO; she was the niece of Colonel Bill Whitbread, who was the long-serving Chairman of Whitbread & Co. Ltd, the brewers. After being discharged from active service, Tidbury started work for the firm; he trained at their Mackeson brewery in Hythe, Kent, before training in rotation at the company's Head Office in London. The following year, he informally became an assistant director and was formally appointed to the position in 1957. In 1959, he was appointed Managing Director, a role in which he served until his promotion to Chief Executive Officer in 1974. Three years later, he became the company's Deputy Chairman and between 1978 and 1984 he was its Chairman, remaining on the board until 1988. He also served as director of Whitbread Investment Co. Plc (1975–93) and Gales Brewery in Horndean (1989–96).

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Robert George Tomlinson

Robert George Tomlinson (30 March 1869 – 13 January 1949) was an English brewer and cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1891 and 1893 and was later umpire in first class matches in Scotland.

Tomlinson was born at Winshill, Derbyshire, the son of Henry George Tomlinson and his wife Cecilia Mary Lowe. His father was a director of Thomas Salt and Company brewers of Burton on Trent. He was educated at Repton School where he played in the first XI and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He entered the family brewing firm of Thomas Salt and Company to become a director, and played cricket for the brewery and for Derbyshire Friars. In the 1891 season he made his debut for Derbyshire and played twice in the 1892 season and twice in the 1893 season when the club's matches were not accorded first class status. He was described as a good batsman and slow bowler.

Tomlinson married Christiana Alexandrina Agnes Gibson Bowie, daughter of Alexander Gibson Bowie of Edinburgh in 1898. Between 1905 and 1908 he umpired first class matches in Edinburgh during June and July when Scotland played touring Australians, West Indians and South Africans and English counties.

Tomlinson died at Malvern, Worcestershire, at the age of 79. His son William Tomlinson played first class cricket for Derbyshire and for Cambridge University. His daughter Wanda married Keith Bullen, one of the Cairo poets. His cousin Alfred Cochrane also played cricket for Derbyshire

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Benjamin Truman

Sir Benjamin Truman (1699/1700 – 20 March 1780) was a notable English entrepreneur and brewer during the 18th century. He is notable for the expansion of the Truman Brewery in the Spitalfields area of east London.

Truman followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, both named Joseph Truman. Joseph Truman the elder inherited the Lolsworth Field brewery, William Bucknall's Brewhouse, in 1694, and took his son into partnership in 1716 before dying in 1719. Benjamin Truman joined the firm in 1722, and proved himself a shrewd businessman:

Under Truman's management, the Black Eagle brewery increased substantially in prosperity and size, and Truman divided his time between the brewery's Directors' House and a home, Popes, in Hertfordshire.

Truman was knighted by George III on his accession in 1760 in recognition of his loyalty in contributing to the voluntary loans raised to carry on the various foreign wars. His portrait was painted by George Romney and Sir Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1773-1774); the latter has been part of the Tate Gallery collection since 1978.

Truman died on 20 March 1780, and left a daughter, his only child, whose two grandsons (Sir Benjamin's great-grandchildren), John Freeman Villebois and Henry Villebois, succeeded to his interest in the business.

Truman was buried in the Churchyard of St Mary's, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire. Together with his memorial is that of his wife Dame Frances Truman who died 10 June 1766 aged 66 and James Truman Esq., died 11 November 1766 aged 42.

Truman's wife, Frances, was a matrilineal descendant of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and the descent through which the remains of Richard III of England were identified in 2013 passes through her and their daughter, also Frances:

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Andrew Barclay Walker

Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet (15 December 1824 – 27 February 1893) was a brewer and Liverpool Councillor.

Walker was born the son of Peter Walker at Auchinflower, Ayrshire, and was educated at Ayr Academy and at the Liverpool Institute.

He followed his father into brewing. In 1879, on the death of his father, he gained control of the business and in 1890 he turned it into a public company, Walkers of Warrington. Several pubs in Liverpool and the northwest of England still carry the slogan "Walkers Warrington Ale" in their frosted glass.

He was a Justice of the Peace for Ayrshire and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire. He was elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool for 1873 and 1876 and appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1886–87.

He married Eliza, the eldest daughter of John Reid, of Limekilns, Fife. They had 6 sons and two daughters, including John Reid Walker and William Walker, 1st Baron Wavertree (both renowned racehorse breeders).

His youngest daughter Ethel Lisette married on 3rd February 1897 the 9th. Earl of Kingston in 1897, and they took up residence in Kilronan Castle, Co. Roscommon. Sir Andrew later married Maude Okeover, the daughter of Haughton Charles Okeover; they had no children.

He built the Walker Art Gallery which is named after him and donated it to the City of Liverpool. For this, and other good works, he was knighted in 1877 and created Baronet Walker, of Gateacre, co. Lancaster in 1886.

Sir Andrew Barclay Walker was a great yachtsman. He owned a number of yachts including the 'Cubona', a mermaid which he sailed at the North Shannon Yacht Club in Ireland.

He presented a trophy known as the Barclay Walker Challenge Cup for Half Deckers, Colleens and Half raters

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