Tag: personal networks

Victorian Bournemouth (2006)
4th Period

Victorian Bournemouth (206): Methodist ministers

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At Victorian Bournemouth, the foundation of several chapels provided wide opportunities for Wesleyans to worship. Their ministers had similar social backgrounds: middling, respectable. Often, their father’s occupations in trade and commerce, perhaps helped them to introduce efficiency into their Bournemouth incumbency, for example clearing debts. Others found high positions within the Wesleyan organisation. Their focus on working people enabled them to combine without provoking anxiety amongst middling people and the gentry.

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Victorian Bournemouth (63): drain wars
2nd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (63): drain wars (2)

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Social difference expressed through civic action Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (63) explores differences in the social backgrounds and personal networks of the antagonists in this struggle (1865). An unofficial ‘sanitary committee’, led by the Sanatorium’s physicians, attempted to improve Bournemouth’s drainage system. The town’s Improvement Commission opposed them. Affluent and well-connected, the rebellious doctors brought pressure […]

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Victorian Bournemouth (72)
1st Period

Bankruptcy at early Victorian Bournemouth

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Introduction Bankruptcy caught Samuel Bayly, one of early Victorian Bournemouth’s leading citizens, during 1856. The event attracted considerable press attention, coverage listing Bayly’s creditors as well as the amounts he owed. Publicity therefore inflicted damage to their reputations in addition to the missing money. Genealogical analysis adds texture to the press accounts, while further press […]

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1st Period

The ‘urban clan’ of Samuel Ingram, builder

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Introduction Samuel Ingram, builder and businessman, a member of early Bournemouth’s property meritocracy, appears to have created an ‘urban clan’, whereby relatives and employees dwelt nearby in his houses. Samuel Ingram’s early background The family of Samuel Ingram, carpenter and builder, active in early Bournemouth, came from Moor Crichel and its neighbourhood. Crichel House, the […]

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