Heywood brothers biography books

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Publish Date. Subjects Heywood-Wakefield Company. Edition Availability 1. The five Heywood brothers, a brief history of the Heywood-Wakefield Company during years. Book Details Edition Notes "Address Catalog 8: chair cane and childrens go-carts and carriages, opera chairs , school furniture , folding and chapel chairs, etc. Pencil markings on a few pages.

Furniture Catalog Flat ; Drawings; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; pages. Folio, 30 by 23 cm. One unpaginated sheet in center. Virtually every page is illustrated, most with a large illustration of a wheeled carriage. A few pages near the end have multiple illustrations of parasols, which were attached to the carriages, and one page has two illustrations of runners, to be used in winter.

There is a price list given at the front and on the final leaf. The carriages here used wicker for their cabs, which allowed for elaborate decorative work, and thus the carriages, regardless of their intended purpose, are uniformly pretty. They hark back to a bygone era of horse-drawn carriages, long gowns with intricate lace and flamboyant feather bedecked chapeaux, and decorous strolls through groomed grounds.

Heywood brothers biography books

Heywood Brothers traces its roots back to , Wakefield Company, to The two rattan and wicker furniture companies merged in , just two years before the issuance of this catalogue. The company subsequently got into other areas of furniture production. The company's primary manufacturing plant was closed in but some parts of the business survived, and the company sold rights to its wooden furniture designs in the s.

Condition: Cover with some chipping, creasing, soiling. Spine cloth peeling at ends. Edge staining to title leaf. Otherwise, clean, with a moderate amount of age toning. Card covers. Cloth spine. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Item added to your basket View basket. Proceed to Basket.

View basket. Continue shopping. William Davenport was a merchant, slave trader and co-investor in thirty-six of these voyages with the Heywoods. Table listing Liverpool slave trading voyages with investment from Heywood family members. Information drawn from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. For Robinson and Heywood this meant supplying textiles to slave traders, particularly in Liverpool but also those operating from other ports like London and Bristol.

The vast profits from investment in Transatlantic slave economy gave the brothers the means to establish a bank in in Liverpool. Manchester customers encouraged the Heywoods to establish a bank in the town, and by the s most of their credit was committed to cotton merchants. Benjamin the elder and Arthur Heywood married the heiresses of John Pemberton, a wealthy Liverpool merchant who invested in at least ten slaving voyages.

This marriage facilitated the flow of slave-derived wealth and integrated Benjamin into the Hibbert and Phillips clans, two powerful families, each with their own connections to the slave trade. As a founder and president of the Institution Benjamin was heavily involved in the development of the Institution, and made substantial donations to it. His status within the Institution is illustrated by the portrait below which hung in its reading room.

Courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery Heywood further supported the development of the Institution by raising subscriptions and building popular support.