An Index of Commercial Activity: The Membership of the Manchester Royal Exchange, 1809–1948

Business History

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 97-106

  Farnie, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938051362     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076797900000005     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. E. Simpson, A Sketch of the History of the Manchester Royal Exchange (Manchester, 1875, 36 pp.), which prints on p. 33 the number of subscribers for the years 1809–74; J.G.C. Parsons, The Centenary of the Manchester Royal Exchange 1804—1904. Historical Sketch (Manchester, 1904, 34 pp.); R.J. Allen, The Manchester Royal Exchange. Two Centuries of Progress, 1729–1921 (Manchester, 1921, 35 pp.); W.H. Mills, ‘The Story of the Exchange’, Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1921, 27–29; Manchester Review, Spring 1956, 330–33, ‘The Commercial Development of Manchester in the Later Nineteenth Century’; R.D.H. Scott, The Biggest Room in the World. A Short History of the Manchester Royal Exchange (Manchester, 1976, 61 pp.).
2. Manchester Exchange Directory (Love & Barton, 1847, 132 pp.; 1848, 175 pp.); Manchester Royal Exchange Ltd., Directory and Guide (Collinson, 1891–1968, 75 vols., biennial from 1891, annual from 1901).
3. J.P. Kay, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes (London, 1832), 76.
4. W.H. Mills, Sir Charles W. Macara (Manchester, 1917), 49.
5. Blackburn Standard, 7 January 1857, li; 11 March 1863, 3iv-v; 5 April 1865, 3iii; 10 May 1865, 2i-ii; 12 January 1870, 3iv-v; Rochdale Observer, 29 March 1884, 6iv; 5 April, 7ii; Textile Manufacturer, 15 April 1884, 143, ‘Rochdale’.
6. Manchester City News, 4 January 1868, 2vii-viii; 18 January, 2vi.
7. Manchester Guardian, 9 March 1898, 12i-iii; 26 May, 4iii.
8. W.D. Rubinstein, ‘British Millionaires, 1809–1949’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, November 1974, 207, for James Morrison (1789–1857) of London, textile merchant, merchant-banker and ‘probably the richest commoner of the nineteenth century'.
9. Manchester Royal Exchange, Analysis of Members According to Trades [c. 1926], M81/8/3/99 in the Archives Department of the Manchester Central Library.
10. Manchester Cotton Association Ltd., Minutes of the Board of Directors, 22 November 1927, 149–51; 13 December 1927, 154; 28 February 1928, 177–8, M 26/1/18.
11. Ibid., 10 October 1933, 88.
12. W.C. Taylor, Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire (London, 1842), 9; [C. Redding], An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Lancaster (London, 1842), 9, W.C. Taylor.
13. ‘The Cotton Metropolis’, Chambers’ Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts (Edinburgh, 1852; Manchester, 1972), i, 4.
14. The exception was Engels who was a subscriber from 1854 to 1870, as a member of the firm of Ermen & Engels, thread manufacturers. W.O. Henderson, The Life of Friedrich Engels (London, 1876), i, 199, 201.
15. One exception was James Jardine, chairman from 1875 to 1893 and head of Shaw, Jardine & Co., which had been established in 1807 and ranked amongst the forty largest firms in 1893. For his obituary see the Manchester Courier, 4 September 1893, 5vi; 4 January 1894, 5 vii.
16. Manchester Guardian, 29 July 1903, 5i-ii.
17. Manchester Courier, 21 March 1895, 5iv.
18. F.S. Stancliffe, John Shaw's 1738–1938 (Manchester, 1938), 303–4.
19. Manchester City News, 1 October 1870, 2iv; The Sphinx, 29 October 1870, 349–50; D. Ayerst, Guardian. The Biography of a Newspaper (London, 1971), 125–7.
20. Manchester Guardian, 1 September 1944, 3iii-iv; Manchester Royal Exchange Ltd., Book of Proceedings (11 Nov. 1941–14 Aug. 1945), 26 Sept. 1944, 154, M81/3/1/20.
21. G.B. Hertz, The Manchester Politician, 1750–1912 (London, 1912).
22. F.C. Mather, After the Canal Duke (Oxford, 1970), 363; Manchester Corporation, The Official Handbook of Manchester and Salford 1901 (Manchester, 1901), 356, for 1872–1900; Idem, The Official Handbook of Manchester, Salford and District 1946 (Manchester, 1946), 290, for 1874–1945.
23. 1812–14, 1828–31, 1837, 1842, 1845, 1857, 1869, 1891–3, 1908.
24. Manchester Guardian, 22 March 1894, 5v.
25. Manchester Courier, 21 March 1895, 7i.
26. The Times, 8 July 1896, 10i-ii for the obituary of Sir John Pender (1816–96).
27. Census of Members Attending Exchange, March 4th, 7th and 11th 1913, M81/8/3/96 and 97 showing an average attendance at the peak hour of 2.45 p.m. of 5,780, i.e. fifty-six per cent of the total number of subscribers.
28. A. Crump, A New Departure in the Domain of Political Economy (London, 1878), 30.
29. R. Robson, The Cotton Industry in Britain (London, 1957), 333, 335, 336–7, 338, 340.