Henry Ecroyd & Company Ltd
Henry Ecroyd was born in Bradford on 2 October 1834, the son of Quakers Benjamin (a conveyancer) and Hannah Ecroyd. Henry was educated at Bootham, a Quaker School. After a failing as a Liverpool shipping agent – McTear & Ecroyd, dissolved in 1859 – and as a Co-operative store retailer in London (bankrupt in 1868), Henry joined Deakin, Sons & Co. He then partnered Henry William Fry selling chimneys, petroleum lamps, and stoves in London and Dublin (described as late Strange & Co....
