Holbrook Gaskell II (7 December 1846 – 2 July 1919) was a

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industrialist in

Widnes Widnes ( ) is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 61,464. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form t ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a Historic counties of England, historic county, Ceremonial County, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significa ...

, England. He was the eldest son of

Holbrook Gaskell Holbrook Gaskell (5 March 1813 – 8 March 1909) was a British industrialist, and an art and plant collector. Early life Gaskell was born in Wavertree, Liverpool. He was the eldest son of Roger Gaskell, a sailcloth manufacturer, from his mar ...

, founder of Gaskell, Deacon & Co. and his wife Frances Anne Bellhouse and was born in Patricroft on 7 December 1846. He was educated at Owen's College, Manchester. He became a partner in his father's business, and subsequently became a director when this formed part of the

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. He was also a director of the Liverpool District Lighting Company and the Radpath Brown and Company. Outside of his directorships he served as a justice of the peace for the County of Lancashire. He was a keen sailor being the Rear-Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club and a member of the Royal Anglesey Yacht Club. He married first, in 1873, Jane Stanley Shipman, daughter of Robert Milligan Shipman of Bredbury Hall, Stockport, with whom he had one son who was also named

, and three daughters. He married secondly Edith, daughter of John Alcock, Bredbury, Stockport and had a son and a daughter. In 1879 he was chairman of The Widnes Workman's Public House Co. Ltd., whose establishments provided only non-alcoholic drinks. He died on 2 July 1919 at his house Erindale in

Frodsham Frodsham is a market town, civil parish, and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, increasing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is ...

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* 1846 births 1919 deaths People from Frodsham People from Widnes 19th-century British businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-stub