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Dewsbury
West Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside Foundry Street
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Machell Brothers, Cobden, and Disraeli |
artist unknown
1874 |
Four roundels with bust portraits of the owners of the Cloth Hall Mills, and the prime minister.
 Robert Fletcher Machell (Dewsbury 1833 - Dewsbury 1920), industrialist. |
 William Machell (born c. 1837), industrialist and mayor of Dewsbury. |
 On the blue plaque identified as 'Cobden', maybe Richard Cobden (Dunford, Sussex 1804 - West Lavington, West Sussex 1865), British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman; M.P. for West Yorkshire, although on this memorials in Bradford (portrait bust, 1867, and statue, 1877), London (statue, 1868), and Manchester (statue, 1874) he does not have a beard. |
 Benjamin Disraeli (Bloomsbury 1804 - London 1881), British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His second term began 20 February 1874. |
Blue plaque:
CLOTH HALL
MILLS
The Machell brothers moved their shoddy and mungo business from Bradford Road to Cloth Hall Mills in 1874. Portrait busts of Robert Fletcher Machell and his brother William, together with Cobden and Disraeli, adorn the office frontage. William was mayor of Dewsbury 1880-2
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