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Pilkington family

(per. c. 1825–1925)

Theo Barker

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/57727

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Pilkington family (per.c. 1825–1925), glass manufacturers, came to prominence with Richard Pilkington (1795–1869) and William Pilkington (1800–1872), the brothers who in their lifetime came to dominate British window glass manufacture. Their father, William (1765–1831), came of upwardly mobile farming stock at ...

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date: 11 April 2021

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