George Head Head

George Head Head (c.1795 – 12 December 1876) was a mayor, magistrate, banker and mine owner in Carlisle. The bank was started by his father, but was improved and rebuilt in his lifetime. He attended an important convention in 1840 on Anti-Slavery, where a painting records his involvement. Biography George Head Head was born to a successful banker (J .M. Head) who had a private bank called J.M.Head and Co.. His father had started the bank in his grocers shop and it was passed on to George, who continued to run it at its original location on Botchergate in Carlisle. Eventually Head had the first local building built that was intended to be a bank. From 1835 until his death in 1876 Head was the principal shareholder of the Greenside Mine, a profitable lead mine near Glenridding in Westmorland. In 1840, Head journeyed to London to attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention on 12 June 1840. The picture above shows him in a painting made to commemorate the event which attracted delegates from America, France, Haiti, Australia, Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados.