James Kershaw

James Kershaw
James Kershaw
Born	Manchester, England
Died	Manor House, Streatham
Resting place	West Norwood Cemetery, London
Monuments	Grade II listed, West Norwood, by Alfred Waterhouse
Nationality	British
Known for	Member of the Anti-Corn Law League and founder of the Borough of Manchester, 1838
Home town	Manchester and Streatham
Political party	Liberal

James Kershaw (1795–1864) was a British cotton mill owner and Liberal MP, associated with the Anti-Corn Law League.

He rose from being a clerk for the cotton-spinning company of Lees, Millington & Cullender, of Manchester, to a partner and then head of Kershaw, Lees & Sidebottom, mill owners of Manchester.

He was instrumental in obtaining the municipal franchise of Manchester as a borough in 1838, and was its Mayor between 1842–3, and later became the MP for Stockport from 1847 until his death.

He died at his home in Streatham, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery where his ornate Gothic tomb by Alfred Waterhouse (architect of the Natural History Museum, London and Manchester Town Hall) is listed Grade II, and in such poor condition as to be on the English Heritage at risk register. There is currently no plan from Lambeth council to improve the situation.[1]

Sources

Obituary, The Times 28 April 1864

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gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?

gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.

gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.

gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.

References

Martin, Elizabeth. "HERITAGE AT RISK REGISTER". English Heritage. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

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[1] Martin, Elizabeth. "HERITAGE AT RISK REGISTER". English Heritage. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.