Edward Allen Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton was an industrialist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England and a benefactor to the University of Leeds and other causes. He was born in Ardwick, Manchester, but moved to Wakefield at the age of 22 and lived in Yorkshire thereafter. He married in 1882, but his wife died in childbirth in 1883 and the child shortly afterwards; he did not remarry.

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  • Edward Allen Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton was an industrialist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England and a benefactor to the University of Leeds and other causes. He was born in Ardwick, Manchester, but moved to Wakefield at the age of 22 and lived in Yorkshire thereafter. He married in 1882, but his wife died in childbirth in 1883 and the child shortly afterwards; he did not remarry. The chemical manufacturing company he founded in Wakefield in 1878 still exists on the same site, as Brotherton Speciality Products. Since 1984 it has been a subsidiary of Church and Dwight. In 1927 he donated £100,000 for the building of a new library for the University of Leeds, and the Brotherton Library building is still at the heart of the University Library. He also left his personal collection of books and manuscripts in trust for the University, and the Brotherton Collection is a key section of the University Library, attracting international scholars. He was Member of Parliament for Wakefield 1902-1910 and 1918-1922. He was first elected at a by-election in 1902, when his predecessor William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 7th Earl FitzWilliam inherited a peerage on the death of his grandfather.
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  • Edward Allen Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton was an industrialist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England and a benefactor to the University of Leeds and other causes. He was born in Ardwick, Manchester, but moved to Wakefield at the age of 22 and lived in Yorkshire thereafter. He married in 1882, but his wife died in childbirth in 1883 and the child shortly afterwards; he did not remarry.
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  • Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton
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