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Hugh Taylor
(Born: 1817, Died: 1900)
Warning: This is not intended to be an exhaustive history of this individual, but an indication of the changes of positions and the links between companies, directors and managers in those companies. Only collieries, pits etc. in the North of England are shown - the individual may be involved with other companies or collieries outside this area and there may have been other positions for which we currently do not have details.
Hugh Taylor
Source: Miners of Northumberland and Durham (1873)
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| 1822 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page ?: Newcastle - Taylor, Hugh, Coal Owner, Clark & Hugh Taylor, 16 Quay Side, Coals: HOTSPUR
Source: Pigot & Co.'s Trade Directory of Northumberland. Published in 1822
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| 1827 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page 105: Newcastle - Taylor, Hugh, Coal Owner & Fitter, Clark & Hugh Taylor, 16 Quay Side, Coals: East Percy
Source: Directory of Durham and Northumberland, Wm. Parson & Wm. White, 1827
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| 1834 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page 565: Alnwick - Taylor, Hugh, Coal Owner, Shilbottle Colliery
Source: Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
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| 1848 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page ?: Alnwick - Taylor, Hugh, Coal Owner, Shilbottle Colliery
Source: Slater's Trade Directory for Northumberland, 1848
Page ?: Seaton Sluice - Taylor, Hugh, Coal Owner, Hugh Taylor & Co., East Holywell Colliery
Source: Slater's Trade Directory for Northumberland, 1848
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| 1855 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page 446: Holywell - Taylor, Hugh, Colliery Owner, of East Holywell Colliery
Source: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland by William Whellan & Co. Published in 1855.
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| 1858 | |
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Commercial/Trade Directory
Page 289: Newcastle - Taylor, H., Coal Owner, Holywell
Source: Post Office Directory of Northumberland and Durham, 1858
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| 1864 | |
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Membership
1864-1865, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Vice President; Address: Earsdon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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| 1873 | |
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Biographical Notes
The name of no coal owner is more widely, or more favourably known in these two counties than that of Mr. Hugh Taylor, the genial owner of Chipchase Castle. Mr. Taylor is the son of the late John Taylor, of Shilbottle, in Northumberland, and was born in 1817. He was named after his uncle, the late Mr. Hugh Taylor, of Earsdon, who was well known as the commissioner of the Duke of Northumberland. Part of his eductaion was received at the Royal Jubilee School, New Road, Newcastle, and nothing seems to give him greater pleasure than to attend at the annual examination of the Jubilee boys, and give them a word of encouragement and advice. Being of a generous and adventurous disposition, he chose the sea as his profession, his first voyage being from North Shields, in the Royal Standard. He very soon discovered that the life of a mariner was rather too hard, and not very profitable, and accordingly while yet young, he left going to sea, and became a partner in a house of coal factors, in London; and, subsequently, in several very extensive collieries in the North of England, including Haswell, Ryhope, Backworth, Holywell, East and West Cramlington, as well as in many mines in South Wales. In 1842, Mr. Taylor married Mary, the daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Taylor, of Cramlington Hall. In 1852, he successfully contested the borough of Tynemouth against Mr. R. W. Grey, the then sitting member who was a talented young Whig ; but treating had been very extensively carried on by his supporters, and in the following year he was unseated on a petition, for bribery. Mr. W. S. Lindsay, the well-known shipowner, was then returned in his stead; but at the next election in 1859, he returned to the charge, and succeeded in ousting Mr. Lindsay, who was elected for Sunderland soon afterwards. Though returned as a Tory, Mr. Taylor had not been in the House of Commons very long before he surprised his Conservative friends in North Shields by the liberality of his views, and by his repeated appearance in the Liberal lobby, against the Tories on critical and party questions. On the death of his brother, Mr. Thomas John Taylor, in 1861, Mr. Hugh Taylor deemed it prudent to devote more time to his own business, and he accordingly retired from Parliament. Since then he has confined his attention almost exclusively to his own business, which has very largely extended, and now includes the proprietorship of a very considerable tonnage of steam shipping. Mr. Taylor is chairman of the Coal Trade Association; president of the Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce; and a Justice of the Peace for the Counties of Northumberland and Middlesex. As an employer, Mr. Taylor is at once the best known, and the best beloved of all the coal owners of the north. While looking after his own interests in every legitimate manner, he yet recognises to the fullest extent the interests of the miners, and in place of regarding them as mere tools, as many yet are disposed to regard them, he looks upon them as fellowmen rendering him an obligation by their labour equally as he renders them an obligation by finding them employment. In all disputes arising between him and his men, he has ever shown a generous and conciliatory spirit, and no man who has had any dealings with him - be his social position what it may - ever had cause to complain of any discourtesy on the part of Mr. Hugh Taylor.
Source: Miners of Northumberland and Durham (1873)
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Membership
1880-1881, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: King Street, Quay, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Elected: 05 Sep 1856
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Membership
1888-1889, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: King Street, Quay, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Elected: 05 Sep 1856
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Membership
1889-1890, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: King Street, Quay, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Membership
1896-1897, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: East Holywell Office, Quayside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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| 1900 | |
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Biographical Notes
December 8th, 1900.
Death of Mr. Hugh Taylor.
The President (Mr. J. G. Weeks) said that the demise of Mr. Hugh Taylor had occurred since the last meeting. His work did not lie in the same direction as that of the late Mr. G. C. Greenwell, but he was a member of the Institute from 1856, and was well known in the coal trade of Northumberland and Durham. He was kindly and philanthropic, and identified himself with the success which had attended the Northumberland and Durham Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund. He moved that a letter of condolence be sent to Mr. Tom Taylor.
Mr. J. H. Merivale (Broomhill), in seconding the resolution, said that the late Mr. Hugh Taylor had done a great deal of good in connection with the Durham College of Science. For many years he personally provided for the maintenance and education of 2 or 3 working-men, in order that they might have the advantage of the instruction to be obtained at that College; but the scheme fell through because they could not find young working miners sufficiently well-educated to profit by the opportunity.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Source: Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, Vol. XX
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- Directory of Durham and Northumberland, Wm. Parson & Wm. White, 1827
- History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland by William Whellan & Co. Published in 1855.
- Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
- Pigot & Co.'s Trade Directory of Northumberland. Published in 1822
- Post Office Directory of Northumberland and Durham, 1858
- Slater's Trade Directory for Northumberland, 1848
- The Miners of Northumberland and Durham by Richard Fynes, first published in 1873
- Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Volume I published in 1890
- Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Volume XIII published in 1897
- Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, Volume XX, 1900-1901, Published in 1902
- Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Volume XIV published in 1865
- Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Volume XXX published in 1881
- Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Volume XXXVIII published in 1889
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