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Description: | As a young man, William was employed at Longridge's Iron Works in Bedlington, later moving to Armstrong, Mitchell and Co in Newcastle in 1860. In 1864, he set up a small engineering business on the South Shore in the same area as Hawks and Abbots iron foundries. Within a year, he had taken a partner, Abel Chapman and later the two were joined by Charles Parsons. The firm relocated to St James' Road and within 20 years, was world famous. William Clarke played an active part in the affairs of Gateshead and was a JP and a Council member for some years as well as an organiser for the local Volunteer Corps, treasurer of the Childrens Hospital and a supporter of the Northern Counties Institute for the Deaf. He was also a staunch Methodist and the first Treasurer of the 'New Durham Road Wesleyan Mission Committee' in 1885. He also introduced a number of reading rooms and science classes for Gateshead people. It was said of William that he seldom 'strayed from the banks of the Tyne'. He died unexpectedly at the age of 59. He lived at the Hermitage from about 1874, a mansion with 20 rooms. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Industrialists Councillors and M.P.s | Temporal: | name=Victorian; start=1837; end=1901; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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