William Vansittart Bowater
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William Vansittart Bowater (15 March 1838 – 28 April 1907) was the founder of Bowater Scott which was to emerge as Rexam
, one of the United Kingdom
's largest packaging businesses.
Sarah Davis, daughter of John Davis, of Caerleon
, Monmouthshire
, and had a younger brother and four sisters. His paternal grandparents were Major William Bowater (24 August 1755 - 15 March 1829), of Horsley Court, who gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Marines
, and wife (m. 23 October 1803) Maria Cole (remarried on 18 May 1830 to William Thompson), daughter of Captain
Thomas Cole, who gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 53rd Regiment.
-maker in Manchester
, William Bowater decided to establish himself in business as a paper agent in 1881. The business expanded rapidly in the final decades of the nineteenth century supplying newsprint for both the Daily Mail
and the Daily Chronicle
.
, Gloucestershire
, on 8 June 1861 and they went on to have nine children:
They lived at Bury Hall in Edmonton
, Middlesex
.
Rexam
Rexam PLC is a global consumer packaging company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest manufacturer of beverage cans in the world and a leading producer of plastic packaging...
, one of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
's largest packaging businesses.
Family
He was the son of Thomas Vansittart Bowater (b. 2 October 1808, m. 14 February 1837) and WelshWelsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
Sarah Davis, daughter of John Davis, of Caerleon
Caerleon
Caerleon is a suburban village and community, situated on the River Usk in the northern outskirts of the city of Newport, South Wales. Caerleon is a site of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman legionary fortress, Isca Augusta, and an Iron Age hill fort...
, Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire is a county in south east Wales. The name derives from the historic county of Monmouthshire which covered a much larger area. The largest town is Abergavenny. There are many castles in Monmouthshire .-Historic county:...
, and had a younger brother and four sisters. His paternal grandparents were Major William Bowater (24 August 1755 - 15 March 1829), of Horsley Court, who gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Marines
Royal Marines
The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines , are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service...
, and wife (m. 23 October 1803) Maria Cole (remarried on 18 May 1830 to William Thompson), daughter of Captain
Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)
Captain is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines. It ranks above Lieutenant and below Major and has a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force...
Thomas Cole, who gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 53rd Regiment.
Career
Having trained as a manager with James Wrigley, a paperPaper
Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
-maker in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, William Bowater decided to establish himself in business as a paper agent in 1881. The business expanded rapidly in the final decades of the nineteenth century supplying newsprint for both the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
and the Daily Chronicle
Daily Chronicle
The Daily Chronicle was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the Daily News to become the News Chronicle.-History:...
.
Marriage and issue
William Bowater married Eliza Jane Davey (d. 23 June 1912), daughter of Thomas Davey, of BristolBristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, on 8 June 1861 and they went on to have nine children:
- Norman Vansittart Bowater (1 July 1862 - 6 May 1934), married firstly in 1907 Jessie Selina Talbot (d. 1925), and had one child, and married secondly in 1925 Jessie F. Frampton, daughter of W. J. Frampton, of StoneStone, KentStone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford, is one of a string of villages lying along the Dartford to Gravesend road on the south bank of the River Thames in Kent, England.-History:...
, KentKentKent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, who married secondly on 17 December 1948 Sir Thomas Dudley Blennerhassett Bowater, 3rd Baronet, and had two children:- Major Norman Knightley Vansittart Bowater (28 January 1915 - 9 September 1999), married on 1 November 1944 Jessie Sproat, who lived in 2003 at 4 Malvern Road, AshfordAshford, KentAshford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most...
, KentKentKent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, daughter of John Barber Sproat, of Lennox Plunton, BorgueBorgue, Stewartry of KirkcudbrightBorgue is a village in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies 5 miles south-west of Kirkcudbright and 6 miles south of Gatehouse of Fleet.-Notable people from Borgue:...
, KirkcudbrightshireKirkcudbrightshireThe Stewartry of Kirkcudbright or Kirkcudbrightshire was a county of south-western Scotland. It was also known as East Galloway, forming the larger Galloway region with Wigtownshire....
, and had one daughter:- Jane Margaret Bowater (b. 28 July 1950), educated between 1961 and 1968 at Ashford Grammar School for Girls, Ashford, Kent, married firstly in December 1974 and divorced in 1985 Martin Marais, of Cape TownCape TownCape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, Cape ProvinceCape ProvinceThe Province of the Cape of Good Hope was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa...
, and had issue, and married secondly on 11 March 1989 Max Nicholas Brown, educated between 1952 and 1961 at Hymers CollegeHymers CollegeHymers College is a co-educational independent school located on the site of the old Botanic Gardens of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1893 as a boys' school, but expanded to include girls from the 1970s onwards.-History:...
, Kingston upon HullKingston upon HullKingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
, YorkshireYorkshireYorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, of Cape Town, Cape Province, son of Edward Brown, of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, and Anne Elisabeth Ohrt, of HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, without issue
- Jane Margaret Bowater (b. 28 July 1950), educated between 1961 and 1968 at Ashford Grammar School for Girls, Ashford, Kent, married firstly in December 1974 and divorced in 1985 Martin Marais, of Cape Town
- Pamela Ann Bowater, who lived in 2003 at 3 Sheafe Drive, CranbrookCranbrook, KentCranbrook is a small town in Kent in South East England which was granted a charter in 1290 by Archbishop Peckham, allowing it to hold a market in the High Street. Located on the Maidstone to Hastings road, it is five miles north of Hawkhurst. The smaller settlements of Swattenden, Colliers...
, Kent, married in August 1953 Roger Derek Burdge, son of W. D. Burdge, of Hocker Edge, Cranbrook, Kent, and had issue - Michael Vansittart Bowater (b. 7 October 1928), educated at Ashford Grammar School, Ashford, Kent, married on 20 August 1955 Joan Edith Hughes, daughter of Joseph Hughes, of OsterleyOsterleyOsterley is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in west London. It is situated approximately west south-west of Charing Cross.Osterley lies north of the A4 and extends further northwards beyond the M4 Motorway...
, Middlesex, and had four children:- David Vansittart Bowater (b. 7 May 1957)
- Sara Ann Bowater (b. 16 January 1959)
- Nigel Vansittart Bowater (b. 21 July 1961)
- Michael Richard Bowater (12 February 1963 - 31 August 2007)
- Major Norman Knightley Vansittart Bowater (28 January 1915 - 9 September 1999), married on 1 November 1944 Jessie Sproat, who lived in 2003 at 4 Malvern Road, Ashford
- Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 1st Baronet (29 October 1862 - 28 March 1938), who was to become Lord Mayor of LondonLord Mayor of LondonThe Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...
- Edith Annie Bowater (6 April 1864 - 7 January 1930), unmarried and without issue
- Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet (3 April 1866 - 10 November 1947), who was to become Lord Mayor of LondonLord Mayor of LondonThe Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...
- Sir Frederick William Bowater (8 June 1867 - 16 May 1924), who was invested as a Knight CommanderKnight CommanderKnight Commander is the second most senior grade of seven British orders of chivalry, three of which are dormant . The rank entails admission into knighthood, allowing the recipient to use the title 'Sir' or 'Dame' before his or her name...
of the Order of the British EmpireOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
(KBE) in 1920, married on 25 September 1890 Alice Emily Sharp, daughter of Joseph Sharp, of Bognor RegisBognor RegisBognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
, SussexSussexSussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, and had four children:- Gladys Bowater, married in 1913 Gerrard Masterman Loly
- Phyllis Irene Bowater (d. 26 April 1959), married firstly in 1914 William Timmis and married secondly CaptainCaptain (British Army and Royal Marines)Captain is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines. It ranks above Lieutenant and below Major and has a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force...
Cecil Mackintosh Boileau - Nina Bowater (d. 1925), married André Fillonneau
- Sir Eric Vansittard Bowater
- Herbert James Bowater (9 November 1869 - ?)
- Mabel Bowater (3 September 1871 - 16 June 1919), married on 2 July 1896 Harold Greenwood
- Arthur Edward Bowater (18 February 1873 - ?)
- Sydney Bowater (29 August 1874 - 14 May 1939), of Bury Hall, Edmonton, Middlesex, married Jeanette Lucille (?) (ca. 1890 - 23 December 1967)
They lived at Bury Hall in Edmonton
Edmonton, London
Edmonton is an area in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, England, north-north-east of Charing Cross. It has a long history as a settlement distinct from Enfield.-Location:...
, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
.
Sources
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 457.