Baron Dickinson Webster

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name = Baron Dickinson Webster

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caption = Blue plaque at Penns Hall
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birth_date = Start date|1818
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death_date = 1860
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residence = Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield, England
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known_for = Wire manufacture
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footnotes = Baron Dickinson Webster, 1818-1860, son of Joseph Webster of Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield (then in Warwickshire), England, was a Justice of the Peace, a freemason, a member of the Aston Union and of the Turnpike Trust and was Warden of the town in 1844 and in 1855-1858.

A man of some prominence, he was much involved in the negotiations with railway companies regarding their plans for routes to and through Sutton Coldfield. His business interests included the manufacture of wire, and in 1998 a blue plaque was erected at Penns Hall, by the Sutton Coldfield Civic Society, honouring his involvement in the first transatlantic telegraph cable. In 1855, the business of Websters was merged with that of Horsfall at Hay Mills, Birmingham and, in 1859, the whole business was transferred to Hay Mills and the Penns Mills were closed down, with serious financial consequences for many workers and the economy of the Walmley area of Sutton Coldfield.

References

*"The Ironmasters of Penns", 1971, John Horsfall