Английская Википедия:Charles Wells (brewer)

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox person Captain Charles Wells (13 August 1842 – 1 April 1914) was the British founder of Charles Wells Ltd, which became the largest privately owned brewery in the United Kingdom, and the progenitor of the Wells Baronets of Felmersham.[1][2][3][4]

Life

Wells was born on 13 August 1842, the second son of George Wells, a cabinetmaker.[1][2][5] He left Bedford Modern School at the age of fourteen and went to sea, ‘signing up with the shipping company Wigrams as a midshipman on the frigate Devonshire’.[1][2] Wells was made a captain on 16 December 1868[6] and offered command of Wigrams's first steamship.[1][2][7]

While on leave in the early 1870s, Wells became engaged to Josephine Grimbly of Banbury, Oxfordshire.[1][2] Josephine's father, although in favour of the match, said that ‘Charles Wells must leave the sea and find a new and less dangerous career’.[1][2] In 1872 Charles and Josephine married; they had five sons (one of whom, Richard Wells, was created a baronet) and three daughters.[1][2]

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The grave of Charles Wells, at Foster Hill Cemetery, Bedford.

In 1876, Wells became a brewer when he took over a coal wharf, a malt house and brewery in Horne Lane, Bedford, and thirty five public houses, sold to him at public auction in December 1875.[1][2][8] He subsequently sold off the coal business.[1][2]

In 1903, Wells became a member of Bedford Borough Council, which he served until 1909.[2] Four of Charles's sons became partners in the brewery on condition that they live in Wells's native town of Bedford.[1] In 1910, the business was registered as a private limited company, valued at £150,000 and owning 140 pubs.[1]

Charles Wells died in Bedford on 1 April 1914.[1] He is buried at the Foster Hill Cemetery, a few metres east of the chapel.

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  1. ↑ 1,00 1,01 1,02 1,03 1,04 1,05 1,06 1,07 1,08 1,09 1,10 1,11 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 2,8 2,9 Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
  6. ↑ UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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