It is hard to believe that my Great Granduncle (my Great Great Grandad's son) was once a director of one of the most important mills in the whole world during the Victorian and Edwardian Era. Lister's of Manningham Mills even supplied the White House in the USA with velvet curtains. I think a lot of people tend to forget him as the not as well known director and it is always Mr Watson, the Managing Director whose family owned a spa hydro in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, who gets the public acclaim.
With this in mind I got him a plaque from a charity I support and the charity displays the plaque in public. The funds go to the charity, so it is win win all the way.
Richard Hornshaw wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth - he worked up from Office Clerk, to Manager of the Silk Mill, to Export Manager, to one of the Board of Directors for the whole of Listers Mill (Manningham Mills) Bradford. He lived in a nice (but fairly modest, given his position) house in Heaton, Bradford.
