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Biographical Index.
Society in 1902. Died in office in 1907. Active worker in Co-operative Union
and twice chairman of Congress. Honoured by the Good Templars and the
Rechabites, at one time or another he was also a Poor Law Guardian, a member
of the Newport School Board, a governor of the University College for South
Wales, town councillor, alderman, and Mayor of Newport (1900-1901) and
J.P. ; and always prominent in the United Methodist Free Church.
Bunton, William.—A bookseller and newsagent in Banbury. Owenite and
chartist, he suffered imprisonment in the days of the chartist agitation. A
pioneer of wholesale co-operation, in contributions to the early issues of the
Co-operative News, he foresaw and indicated far-reaching developments of
federal co-operation.
Butcher, John (1833).^Shoemaker from boyhood. Born at Brackley in
1833 and still alive and hearty at Leicester. Educated at Brackley Grammar
School. Going to Banbury to manage a boot and shoe business, he became a
founder and first secretary of the Banbury Society, and is still " No. 1." Member
of the C.W.S. Committee in 1873; manager of the C.W.S. Boot and Shoe Works
from the same year until retirement in 1904. Active in the Co-operative Union
as organiser and first honorary secretary of the Midland Section; started at
Banbury the first co-operative record and published (with William Bunton)
the "Banbury Co-operative Tracts;" friend of Joseph Arch and the late Rev.
J. Page Hopps; seven years a member of the Leicester Borough Council, and
always a keen Liberal and Free Trader.
Carr, Thomas (1836-1900).—A pioneer of the co-operative movement in
Consett, and a founder of the Consett Society, serving on the Consett committee
from the start in 1862 to 1894. A member of the provisional committee of
the C.W.S. Newcastle Branch in 1871, and, for a short time afterwards, of
the Branch Committee; he helped also to establish the Derwent Flour
Society, remaining a member of its committee until 1894.
Cheetham, Thomas (1828-1901).—An "original member" of the C.W.S.
on the Committee in 1864 and retiring in 1865. Afterwards a member of the
Rochdale Borough Council and an active Liberal. A Unitarian in early years
and later a secularist.
Ciappessoni, F. A. (1859-1912). Of Sussex birth, he was from 1880 head-
master of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Schools, Cleator Moor. A member and
sometime president of the co-operative society's committee; a member of the
Central Board of the Co-operative Union and of various home and international
co-operative committees; a prime mover in the estabUshment of the Gilsland
Convalescent Home; elected to the C.W.S. Directorate in 1904, and died in
office. An Urban District Councillor, being twice chairman, and a J.P. ; he
was also co-opted a member of the Carhsle Education Authority.
Clay, Joseph (1827-1901).—A native of Dalbiu-y Lees, near Derby. Worked
in a silk factory tMrteen hours daily for Is. 6d. a week at a very early age.
Afterwards a railwayman. A founder of the Gloucester Society, and president
from 1865 until death in 1901. Elected to the first C.W.S. London Branch
Committee in 1874; chairman for nine years; died in office in 1901. Radical
and Nonconformist; member of Gloucester School Board from 1882 until
death; and J.P. of the borough, " erring, if at all, on the side of clemency."
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