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Hugh Mason.
English mill owner, social reformer and Liberal politician (1817-1886)
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About Hugh Mason
Hugh Mason was an English mill owner, social reformer and Liberal politician. He was born in Stalybridge and brought up in Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne until he entered the family cotton business in 1838 after a seven-year period working in a bank. Having originally opposed trade unions, Mason became a paternalistic mill owner, creating a colony for his workers with associated facilities and ensuring that they experienced good conditions. During the Lancashire Cotton Famine of the 1860s he refused to cut workers' wages although it was common practice.
Everything about Hugh Mason →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 30, 1817
- Died
- February 2, 1886