About William Farrer Ecroyd
Lived 1827 – 1915 (aged 88). William Farrer Ecroyd was a British politician.
William Farrer Ecroyd (14 July 1827 – 9 November 1915) was an English politician.
Life Ecroyd was born into a Quaker family, the son of William Ecroyd and Margaret Farrer. He joined the family firm, his father being a Lancashire mill owner. He was widely known as an unselfish employer. Reading the works of theologians, Ecroyd abandoned Quakerism for Anglicanism after his father's death, and abandoned the traditional family Liberalism for Conservatism. Ecroyd married as his second wife Anna Maria Foster, in 1869. The historian and genealogist William Farrer was his second son.
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English politician
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William Farrer Ecroyd was born on 14 July 1827.
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William Farrer Ecroyd died on 9 November 1915.
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William Farrer Ecroyd was a politician.
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