HEY WORTH

Lawrence ( 4 son of Peter Hey worth, woollen manufacturer, d. 1799 ). b. Green snook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his brothers at Bacup 1802; established busine connections with Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S. America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg; firm became Hey worth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade a ociation; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of On the corn laws and other legislative restrictions , 7 ed. 1843; On economic fiscal legislation 1845; The expansion of the suffrage and acce ion of ble ings God has in store for all cla es through the wise exercise of the franchise 1861. d. Yew Tree, West Derby, Liverpool 19 April 1872. I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp. 443–4, portrait ; New bigging’s Forest of Ro endale (1868) 181–88.