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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan_Coal_and_Iron_Company
acquired by Lord Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, owner of the Haigh Colliery in 1865.
in the 1920s employed 9,000 workers
James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
Some family history from the Lindsays ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindsay,_26th_Earl_of_Crawford
On 22 July 1869, the Earl, who was then Lord Lindsay, married Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham (1848–1934), the daughter of Colonel the Hon Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale) and his wife Emily Ramsbottom (daughter of James Ramsbottom, MP, brewer and banker, of Clewer Lodge and Woodside, Windsor, Berkshire)[25][26] and the sister of Ada Constance Bootle-Wilbraham, wife of Italian politician Onorato Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta and Prince of Teano. Together, James and Emily were the parents of seven children:[27]
- Lady Evelyn Margaret Lindsay (8 May 1870 – 3 April 1944), married James Francis Mason, only son of James Mason of Eynsham Hall, in 1895.[27]
The Lindsay Collection at Haigh Hall Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindsay,_26th_Earl_of_Crawford
100,000 + books
The Bibliotheca Lindesiana (i.e. Lindsayan or Lindsian library) had been planned by the 25th Earl and both he and his eldest son had been instrumental in building it up to such an extent that it was one of the most impressive private collections in Britain at the time, both for its size and for the rarity of some of the materials it contained. Alexander William Lindsay had been a book collector from his schooldays and so he continued. In 1861 he wrote to his son James (then 14 years old) a letter which describes his vision of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana; in 1864 he redrafted and enlarged it while visiting his villa in Tuscany. By now it was 250 pages long and under the name of the "Library Report" it continued to be added to during their lifetimes. He based his plan on the Manuel of J.-Ch. Brunet[13] in which knowledge is divided into five branches: Theology, Jurisprudence, Science and Arts, Belles Lettres, History; to which Alexander added six of his own as paralipomena: Genealogy, Archaeology, Biography, Literary History, Bibliography and Encyclopaedias; and finally a Museum.[14] Features of the collection included reacquired stock from earlier Lindsay collections, manuscripts both eastern and western, and printed books, all chosen for their intellectual and cultural importance.[15]
James Lindsay in the Haigh Hall Library
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=14205&gallery=Haigh+Hall&page=2
auction for the Crawford Library catalogue
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