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In 1827 Stephen Beuzeville was declared bankrupt; a formal deed of sale dated 11 April 1828 was created between the commissioners in bankruptcy and Samuel Courtauld, whereby Halstead Mill (subject to charges of £300) was sold to Courtaulds for a cash payment of £1,500. Stephen and his father joined Courtaulds as employees.
Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals. It was established in 1794 and became the world's leading man-made fibre production company before being broken up in 1990 into Courtaulds plc and Courtaulds Textiles Ltd .
The Strand block of Somerset House, designed by William Chambers from 1775 to 1780, has housed The Courtauld Institute of Art since 1989.. Samuel Courtauld (7 May 1876 – 1 December 1947) was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector.
In 1827 Stephen Beuzeville was declared bankrupt; a formal deed of sale dated 11 April 1828 was created between the commissioners in bankruptcy and Samuel Courtauld, whereby Halstead Mill (subject to charges of £300) was sold to Courtaulds for a cash payment of £1,500. Stephen and his father joined Courtaulds as employees.
Per Ancestry.com, Halstead is an English name from Yorkshire and Lancashire, described as "habitational name from any of various places bearing this name for example in Essex ...
the Courtauld Silk Mill in Halstead, Essex George Courtauld, sometimes referred to as George II Courtauld, spent four years in the United States of America with his father. The father, the elder George, had visited America in his youth and it had clearly created a deep impression upon him, as it was to America that he wished to return when he ...
Apprenticed to a Spitalfields silk weaver in 1775, George Courtauld first worked on his own as silk throwster. [1] Between 1785 and 1794 he made a number of visits to America. [1]
With him she had eight children, although only four survived, [8] and their son George, apprenticed in 1761 to a silk throwster, began the link to the textile company Courtaulds. [3] They ran a successful business until Samuel Courtauld's death in 1765. Her own hallmark was registered with the Goldsmiths' Company around 1766. [2]