He was a cotton manufacturer at Wigan, and a colliery owner.

As rail transport developed in the 19th century, the colliery owners sought to build a tramway to replace the canal.

The Sitwell fortune was made as colliery owners and ironmasters from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Local colliery owners including the Earl of Ellesmere were among its supporters.

He became a shop worker, a business owner and a colliery owner.

He was born in Aberdare, South Wales, the son of a colliery owner.

The colliery owners now appeal and ask that judgment should be entered forthem.

Their dominance in remote villages heightened political and industrial solidarily, colliery owners.

However, the offer made to the colliery owners was not, according to Potter, acceptable, and the matter did not proceed further.

This names the colliery owner as a Mrs. Peterson.