Henry Myers
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| Born | 1856 | ||||||||
| Died | 1946 | ||||||||
| Residence |
The Long House, Leatherhead Long Down, Maori Road, Guildford [1915] 230 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 [1917] Ebbisham Lodge, Downs Avenue, Epsom [1921] | ||||||||
| Occupation | business | ||||||||
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1909.06.08 proposed by Sydney C.H. Goodman, seconded by J. Gray
of the Henry Myers lecture
Chairman, retail trading company
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Henry MYERS was living at The Long House, Leatherhead in 1910. He was a member of The Cobden Club
The Cobden Club was a political gentlemen's club in London founded in 1866 for believers in Free Trade doctrine, and named in honour of Richard Cobden, who had died the year before.
Henry moved to Epsom in the early 1920s, where he lived at “Ebbisham Lodge” (later numbered 1) Downs Avenue for the rest of his life – the name of his house perhaps also influencing the choice of name for the main hall. The September 1939 Register records the then 82 year old (of “Private Means”) at the address together with his 72 year old wife, Ada Mary, their 47 year old unmarried daughter, Ada Margery, and their 43 year old parlour maid, Ruth Elliman.
Henry and Ada Mary (née Arnold) had married on 30 July 1891 at St Stephen’s Church, Clapham Park. The marriage certificate describes not only Henry but also his father (John) and Ada’s father (Edward) – both of Grove Road (now Weir Road), Clapham Park – as “Gentleman”. However, both Henry and in his father were in (albeit upmarket) “trade”. The 1861 Census records the Myers family living at Grove House, Isleworth with father John listed as a “Watchmaker” – however, the fact that the parents and their children were supported by a groom, a “nurse” (three of the four children were under 6) and two domestic servants confirms that this his watchmaking was a significant business.
The 1871 Census records the 14 year old Henry apprenticed to “Watch Manufacturer” William Owen at 49 Craven Street, Coventry. He subsequently worked in his father’s firm of John Myers & Co, Watchmakers & Jewellers, at 131 & 135 Westminster Bridge Road, and took over the business on his father’s retirement at the end of 1891. In the 1901 Census (which recorded Henry, Ada and and their only child, 8 year old Ada Margery, together with three domestic servants at – perhaps temporarily – 2 Babbacombe Bay Terrace, Torquay), Henry is listed as “Governing Director of Limited Company selling watches and jewellery to retail”. When Henry died in December 1946, his estate was valued at £96,000 – worth over £3.5m in terms of goods and services at 2019 prices (and yet more if the inflation of property prices could be taken into account). He was buried in grave O46 of Epsom Cemetery, where his modest headstone notes that he had been “called into life and to higher service“. The widowed Ada died in 1948 and their only child, Ada Margery (who had moved away to Dorset), in 1964. Both are also buried in Henry’s grave. [Epsom and Ewell history explorer]
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