Nathaniel Eckersley (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. His great-uncle was Colonel Nathaniel Eckersley, from Laurel House in Hindley, who served with the Duke of Wellington and at the military station established in Manchester after the Peterloo Massacre. In addition to his cotton mills, Eckersley was a partner of the Wigan Old Bank, formerly Thomas Woodock's, Sons and Eckersley, which amalgamated in 1874 with Parr's Banking Company in Warrington. He was Mayor of Wigan in 1853 and in 1873, and was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in September 1863. In June in 1873 he led Wigan's welcome for the Prince and Princess of Wales, who opened a new hospital in the town, which the Princess named the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.