Edward Vickers (1804-1897) was the founder of Naylor Vickers & Co. which became
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. Entir ...
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Career
Vickers was a successful
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 equivalent ...
who invested his money in the railway industry.
[Grace's Guide]
/ref> In 1828 he gained 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 assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members t ...
and the Mayor of Sheffield and was the first President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce before he died in 1897.[
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Family
In 1828 he married Anne Naylor, they had seven children (George Naylor (1830-1889) who married Maria Jackson, granddaughter of steelmaker James Jackson,mbajet genealogical tree
/ref> Thomas Edward (1833-1915), Sarah Ann (1836-1919), (1838-1919), Frederick (1840-?), Gertrude L. (1845-?) and Isabel (1847-?)).[
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1804 births
1897 deaths
19th-century British businesspeople