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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Thomas R.G.
| name = Shute
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Shute,_Thomas_R.G..jpg
| birth_date = 1802
| death_date = 1881
| address = The Rookery, Watford
| occupation = business
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1864.05.30
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL ordinary fellow<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1867.12.17 resigns
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
To its north stand the Rookery , pink-brick and early-18th-century, with its stable ... Watford Manors . In the middle of the last century there was a silk mill belonging to Thomas Rock Shute , called Rookery Silk Mill , situated a short distance ...<br /><br />Thomas Rock Shute, born at Sydenham, Kent in 1802 and thus a very young man for his position. Whether Shute's family had any previous connection with the silk industry has not been discovered; at any rate, he evidently made a success at Watford, since he continued there until his death in 1881. Then the mill closed down, becoming in turn a steam laundry and a piano factory; today, after a destructive fire, its remains (with recent extensions) house several small firms of engineers and joiners<br />A rich and varied history lies beneath the present Marks & Spencer store in Rickmansworth. The<br />car park on 195 High Street conceals the foundations of a silk mill built in the early 1830s by a young<br />silk throwster named Thomas Rock Shute. Silk was produced in the mill for half a century until<br />1881. For a brief period, from 1885 to 1891, the building became a jam factory owned by Charlotte,<br />wife of William Plaistowe, a confectionery trader owning a substantial business based in King’s<br />Cross, London. The Franklin brothers, Frederick and Albert, bought it in April 1891, and moved<br />their soft drinks manufacturing from a sweet shop at 171 High Street. The soft drinks business had<br />started life as Franklin Bros in 1886, but the business changed in 1897 to Franklin & Sons when<br />Frederick bought his brother out. Production of soft drinks continued for nearly a century until 1987<br />and it remained a drinks distribution warehouse until 1990. The mill site was added to on four<br />occasions. The mill was demolished in 1991 to make way for the current M&S store.<br />Thomas Rock Shute, born on 23rd July 1801 at Sydenham, Kent, took over the Rookery silk mill<br />in Watford in 1826 and is named in Pigot’s Directory for Hertfordshire in that year as a Silk<br />Throwster. Ill-health had forced the semi-retirement of his older brother, Richard, thus enabling<br />Thomas Rock Shute to inherit the Watford mill from his father. Under Thomas the mill<br />prospered. He decided to expand the business and sought a new site. He selected<br />Rickmansworth because there was an easily accessible and inexhaustible supply of clean water,<br />not only from the River Colne’s tributaries but also from wells. Rickmansworth was also blessed<br />with an abundant supply of labour whereas he was short of workers in Watford. The village had<br />plenty of females between the ages of 10 and 20 and, furthermore, the cost of labour was lower<br />compared to wages paid to workers in London. Rickmansworth was, conveniently, located close<br />enough to Watford to enable Shute to bring trained staff across to establish manufacturing and<br />bring on local labourers. The Grand Union Canal was very accessible for transport as there had<br />been a junction to Rickmansworth town wharf since 1815 for Dickinson’s paper mills at<br />Batchworth. Construction of the mill began in 1831 and was completed in 1832. Thomas Rock<br />Shute also built a second mill in Chesham.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Thomas R.G.
| name = Shute
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Shute,_Thomas_R.G..jpg
| birth_date = 1802
| death_date = 1881
| address = The Rookery, Watford
| occupation = business
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1864.05.30
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL ordinary fellow<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1867.12.17 resigns
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
To its north stand the Rookery , pink-brick and early-18th-century, with its stable ... Watford Manors . In the middle of the last century there was a silk mill belonging to Thomas Rock Shute , called Rookery Silk Mill , situated a short distance ...<br /><br />Thomas Rock Shute, born at Sydenham, Kent in 1802 and thus a very young man for his position. Whether Shute's family had any previous connection with the silk industry has not been discovered; at any rate, he evidently made a success at Watford, since he continued there until his death in 1881. Then the mill closed down, becoming in turn a steam laundry and a piano factory; today, after a destructive fire, its remains (with recent extensions) house several small firms of engineers and joiners<br />A rich and varied history lies beneath the present Marks & Spencer store in Rickmansworth. The<br />car park on 195 High Street conceals the foundations of a silk mill built in the early 1830s by a young<br />silk throwster named Thomas Rock Shute. Silk was produced in the mill for half a century until<br />1881. For a brief period, from 1885 to 1891, the building became a jam factory owned by Charlotte,<br />wife of William Plaistowe, a confectionery trader owning a substantial business based in King’s<br />Cross, London. The Franklin brothers, Frederick and Albert, bought it in April 1891, and moved<br />their soft drinks manufacturing from a sweet shop at 171 High Street. The soft drinks business had<br />started life as Franklin Bros in 1886, but the business changed in 1897 to Franklin & Sons when<br />Frederick bought his brother out. Production of soft drinks continued for nearly a century until 1987<br />and it remained a drinks distribution warehouse until 1990. The mill site was added to on four<br />occasions. The mill was demolished in 1991 to make way for the current M&S store.<br />Thomas Rock Shute, born on 23rd July 1801 at Sydenham, Kent, took over the Rookery silk mill<br />in Watford in 1826 and is named in Pigot’s Directory for Hertfordshire in that year as a Silk<br />Throwster. Ill-health had forced the semi-retirement of his older brother, Richard, thus enabling<br />Thomas Rock Shute to inherit the Watford mill from his father. Under Thomas the mill<br />prospered. He decided to expand the business and sought a new site. He selected<br />Rickmansworth because there was an easily accessible and inexhaustible supply of clean water,<br />not only from the River Colne’s tributaries but also from wells. Rickmansworth was also blessed<br />with an abundant supply of labour whereas he was short of workers in Watford. The village had<br />plenty of females between the ages of 10 and 20 and, furthermore, the cost of labour was lower<br />compared to wages paid to workers in London. Rickmansworth was, conveniently, located close<br />enough to Watford to enable Shute to bring trained staff across to establish manufacturing and<br />bring on local labourers. The Grand Union Canal was very accessible for transport as there had<br />been a junction to Rickmansworth town wharf since 1815 for Dickinson’s paper mills at<br />Batchworth. Construction of the mill began in 1831 and was completed in 1832. Thomas Rock<br />Shute also built a second mill in Chesham.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
