The talk was by Julie Kershaw on 15th February 2016.
The sugar industry has become highly politicised over the past 150 years for reasons to
do with our colonies, the slave trade, sugar beet, taxation and today health and obesity.
Henry Tate was born in Chorley in 1819, his father was a Baptist Minister. Henry was
apprenticed to his brother, a grocer, for 7 years. Henry opened his own shops in Liverpool,
Ormskirk and Birkenhead and in 1855 he also became a sugar wholesaler.
In 1859 he purchased a partnership in a Liverpool Refiner employing 15 staff and he also
produced 11 children. He sold sugar in Loaves or Cones.
In 1861 he sold all his six shops and previously in 1859 he bought out his partner and
took 4 of his sons into the business; in 1870 he moved to live in Long Lane in Liverpool.
He was now employing thousands of workers and moved into the Bevan Looscan
process for refining.
He built premises on the Thames, and at Greenock. He was very keen on research and
development and formed a limited company with Lyle.
He retired in 1896 and died in 1899.
He was a very modest and generous man and he turned down a Knighthood.
This was an excellent account.
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