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Beware of the Feast - The History of Robt. Jowitt & Sons (Hardcover)
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Beware of the Feast - The History of Robt. Jowitt & Sons (Hardcover)
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By the 1970s, Robt. Jowitt & Sons was believed to be the oldest
surviving wool company in Britain. From a small family concern it
grew into a large international business before suffering from the
general decline in domestic demand and increase in overseas
competition which afflicted all British wool businesses. This book
tells the story of the company and the family behind it. In the
seventeenth century, the Jowitts were persecuted for being Quakers.
By hard work and moderate habits, they escaped poverty to become
leading opinion-formers and benefactors in nineteenth-century
Leeds. They backed the Reform Bill, fought tirelessly against the
slave trade and were instrumental in setting up the Leeds branch of
the Cotton Districts Relief Fund. Th ey were a major force behind
the General Infirmary, the Medical School and the University. As
well as business records and newspaper articles, the book draws
upon unpublished diaries which give a fascinating glimpse into the
private lives of the Jowitts, in particular John Jowitt junior and
Deborah Benson's trip to Europe in 1835, the year before their
marriage. The diaries also shed light on the family's central role
in the Beaconite controversy which caused many, including the
Jowitts, to leave the Society of Friends. Peter Danckwerts studied
at Oxford Polytechnic, the University of Leeds, the Open University
and Birkbeck College, University of London.
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