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Cornwall / Re: Dr William Ewart Ivers
« on: Friday 06 July 12 10:13 BST (UK) »
Thank you both Isy & Priscilla. It's funny the medals where what started me off on another new thread Priscilla. I was reading in the Daily Mail about a man who was selling his medals & happened to look at the auctioneers site where I found Williams medals. Pity I was 4 years out of date as I would have bid on them. But it was a bit more information that I didn't know. As for Isy's info the bit about Cornwall was also new.
William Ewart his brother Harold Bradley & their father John Gladstone were all Dr's. They were named by their father after the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone after their father very likely met him as he opened the public park in Farnworth, Lancs when chancellor of the exchequer. Their father was the mill manager for Thomas Barnes who was a personal friend of Gladstone. Thomas Barnes donated the land for the park.
William Ewart his brother Harold Bradley & their father John Gladstone were all Dr's. They were named by their father after the Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone after their father very likely met him as he opened the public park in Farnworth, Lancs when chancellor of the exchequer. Their father was the mill manager for Thomas Barnes who was a personal friend of Gladstone. Thomas Barnes donated the land for the park.