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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: Indenture Manningham Lane,Bradford 1853
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:33:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <005f01c62846$b2723a10$6701a8c0@ACER1>


> From: "Ann Brown" <>

> There is reference to a previous indenture on January 17 1852, between Ellis
> Cunliffe Lister Kaye Esq. of Manningham Hall and Metcalfe, Haley, Hardman
> and divers other persons including William Greenwood who comprised the
> membership of the Bradford Improved Commercial Building Society>

Ellis Cunliffe Lister was the father of Samuel Cunliffe Lister, one
of Bradford's most famous Victorian entrepreneurs, who built
Manningham Mills into the world's largest textile mill and was once
believed to be the wealthiest man in the world. He was also a
ruthless employer who paid his workers near-starvation wages to
further enrich himself and who in the infamous Manningham Mills
Strike of 1890-91 turned the militia loose on the striking workers
and starved them back to work. He became Lord Masham in 1891.

The name of the Cunliffe Listers is not always appreciated in
Bradford, even though Masham was in some ways a benefactor to the
city as well. His old ancestral home became Lister Park, still one of
Bradford's great parks today, but even that he sold to the town
council for £40,000 in 1870.

Roy Stockdill
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