Blundell's Collieries

Firm Details

People & Investments (2)

 Partner
 Partner

Notes

Major coal interest in the north-west, developed c. 1774 and in the hands of the Blundell family until 1952.

  1. The partnership lately carried on by Samuel Warren, Jonathan Blundell, William Earle and the late Thomas Birch in the coal trade under Samuel Warren & Co. dissolved 1st March, carried on by Jonathan Blundell, Thomas Earle and William Earle jun. [the original partner was William Earle 1721-1788 and the new partner in 1783 was his son William Earle 1759-1838).

Sources

D. Anderson, 'Blundell's Collieries, the Progres of the Business, https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/116-5-Anderson.pdf

  1. London Gazette 12495 22/11/1783 p. 7