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Edward Vickers
Edward Vickers (1804–1897) was the founder of Naylor Vickers & Co. which became Vickers Limited. He was the brother of Henry Vickers. Career Vickers was a successful miller who invested his money in the railway industry. In 1828 he garnered control of his father-in-law's steel foundry business, formerly Naylor & Sanderson, and renamed it Naylor Vickers & Co. He went on to be Alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ... and the Mayor of Sheffield and was the first President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. Family In 1828 Vickers married Anne Naylor. They had seven children (George Naylor (1830–1889) who married Maria Jackson, granddaughter of steelmaker James Jackson, Thomas Edward (1833–1915), Sarah Ann (1836–1919), Albert (1838–1919), Frederick (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vickers Limited
Vickers Limited was a British engineering conglomerate. The business began in Sheffield in 1828 as a steel foundry and became known for its church bells, going on to make shafts and propellers for ships, armour plate and then artillery. Entire large ships, cars, tanks and torpedoes followed. Airships and aircraft were added, and Vickers jet airliners were to remain in production until 1965. Financial problems following the death of the Vickers brothers were resolved in 1927 by separating Metro-Cammell, Metropolitan Carriage Wagon and Finance Company and Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced as Vickers plc between 1977 and 1999. History Foundry Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor (businessman), George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor & Sanderson, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Vickers
Henry Vickers (1807–1882) was a British solicitor and former mayor of Sheffield. He was the brother of Edward Vickers. Career Vickers was born in 1807 and was responsible for the construction of Holmwood House on Ecclesall Road Ecclesall Road is a road in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, that runs for about south-west from Sheffield's city centre under the number A625. At Banner Cross, where the house numbers reach 1001, the road name changes to Ecclesall Roa ..., which became his residence. His daughter Edith Hester married Sir Alexander Wilson, 1st Baronet (1837–1907). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vickers, Edward 1807 births 1882 deaths 19th-century British lawyers 19th-century British politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miller
A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents in other languages around the world (" Melnyk" in Russian, Belarusian & Ukrainian, " Meunier" in French, "Müller" or " Mueller" in German, " Mulder" and " Molenaar" in Dutch, "Molnár" in Hungarian, " Molinero" in Spanish, "Molinaro" or "Molinari" in Italian, "Mlinar" in South Slavic languages etc.). Milling existed in hunter-gatherer communities, and later millers were important to the development of agriculture. The materials ground by millers are often foodstuffs and particularly grain. The physical grinding of the food allows for the easier digestion of its nutrients and saves wear on the teeth. Non-food substances needed in a fine, powdered form, such as building materials, may be processed by a miller. Quern-stone Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderman
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by Direct election, popular vote, or a council member elected by voters. Etymology The title is derived from the Old English title of ''ealdorman'', which literally means "elder person", and which was used by the chief nobles presiding over shires. Similar titles exist in other Germanic languages, such as ' in Swedish language, Swedish, ' in Norwegian language, Norwegian, ' in Danish language, Danish and Low German, ' in West Frisian language, West Frisian, ' in Dutch language, Dutch, and ' in German language, German. Finnish language, Finnish also has ', which was borrowed from Swedish. All of these words mean "eld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Mayor Of Sheffield
The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates. In 1855, the then-mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use. In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to the city to mark the royal authority invested in the post. The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jackson (steelmaker)
James Jackson (14 March 1771–27 April 1829) was an English manufacturer who established the first steel mill in France, near Saint-Étienne, Loire. Early years James Jackson was the son of Joseph Jackson (1735-1813), a merchant of Blackburn, Lancashire, who retired to Ribbleton with a modest fortune to become a gentleman farmer. Joseph Jackson married four times. James was the son of his third wife and was born in 1771. When he was 18, he became a clerk with Dilworth and Hargreaves, bankers and traders in Lancaster, Lancashire. He later became involved in monitoring the manufacture of furnaces and forges for ironmaking. The French Revolution began in 1789, to be followed by the Directory and then the empire of Napoleon, which lasted until 1814. For much of this period, Great Britain was at war with France. In 1793, when aged about 22, Jackson married Elizabeth Eccles Stackhouse, of Giggleswick, Yorkshire. He then went into maritime trade. His sons Joseph (born 1794), Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vickers
Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers (9 July 1833 – 19 October 1915) was Chairman of Vickers Limited. Career The second son of Edward Vickers and Anne Naylor, Tom Vickers was born on 9 July 1833. He was educated at Sheffield Collegiate School and at Neuwied in Germany.Biography of Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers Institute of Civil Engineers, 1 January 1916 He worked in the family business of Naylor Vickers & Co. Tom Vickers, together with his brother , took over the business in the 1850s. Tom developed the firm into a leading steel casting business using the German Riepe process and in 1867 it was incorporated as Vickers, Sons & Co Limited with himself as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1804 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic. * February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa. * February 14 – The First Serbian uprising begins the Serbian Revolution. By 1817, the Principality of Serbia will have proclaimed self-rule from the Ottoman Empire, the first nation-state in Europe to do so. * February 15 – New Jersey becomes the last of the northern United States to abolish History of slavery in New Jersey, slavery. * February 16 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate at Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli to deny her further use by the captors. * February 18 – Ohio University is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly. * February 20 – Hobart is established in its permanent location in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) as a British penal colony. * February 21 – Cornwall, Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built ''Penydarren' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin City, Benin. * January 7 – A 1897 Darwin cyclone, cyclone destroys Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is founded in Prague. February * February 10 – Freedom of religion is proclaimed in Madagascar. * February 16 – The French conquer the island of Raia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
